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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

Snowfall, BBC Two review - blizzard hits South Central

Monday, 09 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Journey's End review - classic play becomes cracking film

Saturday, 07 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Breathe review - overdosing on good intentions

Thursday, 05 October 2017 Read more...

Blade Runner 2049 review - powerful but needs more soul

Thursday, 05 October 2017 Read more...

The Last Post, BBC One review - sundown on the Empire

Monday, 02 October 2017 Read more...

h.Club 100 Awards: Broadcast - calling out around the world

Wednesday, 27 September 2017 Read more...

The Child in Time, BBC One review - lost in translation

Monday, 25 September 2017 Read more...

Kingsman: The Golden Circle review - too much of everything

Wednesday, 20 September 2017 Read more...

Black Lake, BBC Four review – Nordic blanc falls flat

Sunday, 17 September 2017 Read more...

Prism, Hampstead Theatre review - a life through the lens

Friday, 15 September 2017 Read more...

Liar, ITV - who, if anybody, is telling the truth?

Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Read more...

Tin Star, Sky Atlantic - broken characters stalked by remorseless fate

Monday, 11 September 2017 Read more...

Walter Becker, 1950-2017 - 'we play rock and roll, but we swing when we play'

Wednesday, 06 September 2017 Read more...

Williams review - much more than a film about motor racing

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 Read more...

The Handmaid's Tale, Series 1 finale, Channel 4 review - exquisite to look at but glacially slow

Monday, 31 July 2017 Read more...

The Wall review - action undercut by too much talk

Friday, 28 July 2017 Read more...

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Album: BC Camplight - A Sober Conversation

A Sober Conversation is the work of a master songwriter, one who knows how to achieve their goals. As the album’s nine tracks pour from...

Schubertiade 3 at the Ragged Music Festival, Mile End review...

Aldeburgh offered strong competition for the three evenings of Schubert at the discreetly restored Ragged School Museum, but I knew I had to...

Showmanism, Hampstead Theatre review - lip-synced investigat...

I think my problem is that when I should have been listening in school assemblies or RE lessons, I had the Tom Tom Club’s joyous “...

Immersive Night Music Show, Makita, Londinium Ensemble, Worl...

To mark this year’s summer solstice, a small audience gathered at London’s newest concert venue, the World Heart Beat Embassy Gardens, a small and...

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Kieran Hodgson, Soho Theatre review - a love affair soured b...

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