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Adam Sweeting

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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

The Cameron Years, BBC One review - quite interesting but a bit boring

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City on a Hill, Sky Atlantic review - power, corruption and larceny in 1990s Boston

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Defending the Guilty, BBC Two review - trials and tribulations of a trainee barrister

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Love in the Countryside, BBC Two review - reaping a harvest of marital bliss?

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Temple, Sky 1 review - down in the tube station at midnight

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Suicidal: In Our Own Words, Channel 5 review - why are so many men killing themselves?

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Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History, BBC Four review - Ulster's bitter sectarian war revisited

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Power, politics and Peaky Blinders - the Shelby family return for Series 5

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I Am Hannah, Channel 4 review - last in trilogy leaves us dangling

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Euphoria, Sky Atlantic review - teenage nervous breakdown

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Animals review - who decides when the party's over?

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The Chef's Brigade, BBC Two review - you're in the army now

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Manifest, Sky 1 review - late arrival causes cosmic upheaval

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Keeping Faith, Series 2, BBC One review - family misfortunes

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I Am Nicola, Channel 4 review - not really love, actually

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Pavarotti review - enjoyable but superficial survey of a superstar

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Kieran Hodgson is known to television viewers from Two Doors Down and to online fans for his spoofs of TV dramas; but comedy...

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Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers

Neo-soul devotees Durand Jones and the Indications mine a vein of sensuous sounds, at the soft end of a genre that's partly defined by the raw...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

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Album: Benson Boone - American Heart

I first had a conversation about Benson Boone without realizing it was him we were talking about. It went something like: “Did...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...