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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

Lucky review - fabled character actor stars in his own obituary

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Black Earth Rising, BBC Two review - Blick's new blockbuster

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h 100 Awards: Broadcast - TV's national treasures

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The Negotiator review - Jon Hamm shines in Beirut-based thriller

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Age Before Beauty, BBC One review - mid-life makeover madness

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Hidden, Series Finale, BBC Four review - a whydunnit, not a whodunnit

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The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, ITV review - the ludicrous in search of the preposterous

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout review - brilliant summer blockbuster

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Who Is America?, Channel 4 review - sudden return of Sacha Baron Cohen

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Unforgotten, Series 3, ITV review - death on the M1

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Sharp Objects, Sky Atlantic review - Amy Adams battles her demons

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Whitney review - superstar's dismal demise revisited

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Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars, BBC Two review - blues, booze and dues

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Adrift review - lost at sea

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado review - violent, explosive and nihilistic thriller

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Reporting Trump's First Year: the Fourth Estate, BBC Two review - all hands on deck at the Gray Lady

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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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