William Lee Adams
@willyleeadams
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🎙️ Senior Journalist @bbcworldservice 🇻🇳 My documentary "Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market" is available now on @BBCiPlayer ✍️ Author of "Wild Dances"
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Joined December 2010
🇻🇳 In July I carried my brother’s ashes to our family pagoda in Saigon — a final thank you for the life we shared. 🗺️ “Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market” is available now on @BBCNews. 📺 Watch it here: https://t.co/gseF375tZl
#TravelDocumentary #Vietnam #TravelShow
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🌏 The Miss Universe drama somehow got worse. Is this the pageant's breaking point? 🇨🇦 Great to chat with @NatStechyson from @CBCNews about how allegations of vote rigging and those two arrest warrants have tarnished the crown. https://t.co/zBflUSbx8D
cbc.ca
The chaos of this year's Miss Universe pageant didn't end after Miss Mexico was crowned the winner last week in a competition plagued by controversy. Some contestants have now renounced their...
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👑 Tears, resignations and Instagram-post apologies. We take a look at Miss Mexico's walkout and the business battle that sparked the most controversial Miss Universe pageant ever. #MissUniverse #BBCWorldService
https://t.co/47mbwCOt7N
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The drums are rolling for these outstanding #journalists, #producers, #podcasters #filmmakers shortlisted for the FPA Media Awards 2025 #FPAawards25 Congratulations to you all and good luck for Monday 24th when the winners will be announced, LIVE here https://t.co/rnUWgLVqLH
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✨ Such an honour to host the Vietnam International Awards 2025 with the brilliant Minh Trang — celebrating the resilience and brilliance of the Vietnamese diaspora worldwide. 🌏 Congrats to all winners and nominees! 🇻🇳💫 #VietnamInternationalAwards #EventHost #Vietnamese
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How realistic are Canada's prospects of joining the Eurovision Song Contest? I checked in with @willyleeadams of fansite @wiwibloggs, as well as the Canadian producer who's behind the "Eurovision Canada" pitch, to see where we stand. My story:
thecanadianpressnews.ca
TORONTO - Canadian fans of the Eurovision Song Contest have reason to hope that a homegrown act might one day take part in the outlandish music spectacle.
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Absolutely chuffed that our BBC Travel Show documentary “Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market” is shortlisted for Travel & Tourism Story of the Year at the FPA Media Awards! 🎥🌏 Congrats to all of the finalists — and see you on Nov 24. #FPAawards25 #FPALondon @FPALondon
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🎙️ Salford, calling! I’ve joined the @BBC’s Money & Work team for a few months to present the early edition of Marketplace Morning Report. 🇺🇸 We're live each weekday at 05:51 EST and broadcast on NPR stations across the US. It's been great fun so far. 🔗 https://t.co/jd3wY6vYTZ
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🥳 Thrilled that our Travel Show film “Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market” has been shortlisted in the Arts & Culture category at the 2025 #AIBAwards. 🙏🏻 Thank you to the Association for International Broadcasting for including us alongside such incredible storytellers.
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🎤 Hosting the #celebrASIA main stage at Battersea Power Station has been a total joy. 🌏 And we’re back today from 11:00 - 18:00 with 12 more performances celebrating Southeast Asia. 🎵 Dance, music, and martial arts from 🇹🇭 🇻🇳 🇲🇾 🇮🇩 and 🇵🇭 incoming! 🎟️ Admission is FREE.
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🎙️ Loved chatting with @SamiraAhmedUK and @missbarton on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. We reviewed... 🎵 CMAT’s sharp new album 📰 The Paper — a spinoff of The Office (U.S.) 🎬 The gay romance On Swift Horses #BBCFrontRow #CultureReview #ArtsAndCulture
https://t.co/zkkFlZFKiA
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Podcast Episode · Front Row · 04/09/2025 · 42m
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📣 "We have created a world where narcissism is incentivised." ❓ Dr. Ramani Durvasula — clinical psychologist and narcissism expert — talks me through five of the most-asked questions about narcissism. #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #MentalHealth
https://t.co/5HiwVdK8ue
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📻 Had the best time on the @bbcworldservice show The Arts Hour with host Nikki Bedi + Swiss director Petra Volpe. We talk: 🎥 Late Shift 🇹🇭 Queerness + myth in Drag Race Thailand ⭐️ Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” 🎧 Listen wherever you get BBC podcasts 🔗 https://t.co/I0aop9T3iA
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🇨🇺 “There are no beggars in Cuba,” said the country's now-former Labour Minister. We break down that myth — and more — with the BBC's Cuba correspondent @will__grant. #Cuba #FactCheck #BBCPodcasts
https://t.co/VuFQJ1NxfE
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Podcast Episode · What in the World · 18/07/2025 · 17m
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🤘 17 years ago I was an extra in an Oasis music video, which had an all-Asian cast. 🇻🇳 🇺🇸 I’m half Vietnamese. But on set I was made to feel that I wasn’t “Asian enough.” 🙏🏻 Thank you to @esquire for running this adapted excerpt from WILD DANCES! https://t.co/GlngcFow9d
esquire.com
The "Acquiesce" video swapped Noel and Liam for an all-Asian version of the band, with legions of screaming fans—and I was one of them.
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After a seven-week trial that included 34 witnesses, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been found guilty of transportation for prostitution. We sum up the key moments of the trial, unpack the verdict and ask what's going to happen to Diddy now. https://t.co/5ZtBB1t0r7
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Podcast Episode · What in the World · 03/07/2025 · 13m
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🏆 Oh, Canada! Thank you to the #BanffMediaFestival and the #RockieAwards for naming our Vietnam documentary Best Arts & Entertainment (Lifestyle) Programme. 🙏🏻 It’s so moving that my brother is still touching people years after we said goodbye. 🔗 https://t.co/P0MtQPw38q
🎥 Incredibly honoured that our BBC Travel Show documentary "Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market" has been shortlisted for Best Lifestyle Programme at the @BanffMedia ROCKIE Awards. 📺 The shortlisted programmes are so uplifting. It's a privilege to be among among them.
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🇪🇬 How were Egypt’s Pyramids built? Well it likely involved a branch of the Nile that was later buried by drought and sandstorms. 📷 I speak with the BBC's Rehab Ismail and Egyptologist Yossra Ibrahim about the enduring mysteries in Giza. https://t.co/gMqLArawQP
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🇺🇸 President Trump has claimed that white farmers in South Africa are being executed en masse. This is simply not true. 🇿🇦 BBC journalist @nomsa_maseko explains the origins of this false claim and tells us how people in South Africa have responded. https://t.co/dGMRrjHUZM
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Podcast Episode · What in the World · 26/05/2025 · 11m
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After a two-month blockade, Israeli officials are once again allowing aid — like flour and baby food — to enter Gaza. But the UN says these deliveries are only a “drop in the ocean” compared to what's needed. The BBC's @YolandeKnell brings us the latest. https://t.co/sBM8BhByO6
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Podcast Episode · What in the World · 23/05/2025 · 15m
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🇶🇦 Qatar has gifted the U.S. a $400 million private jet. Despite criticism, President Trump has said only a “stupid person” would refuse it. ✈️ So what does Qatar stand to gain? And why did Trump want it so badly? 🎤 @njimenezmar explains. https://t.co/ks06EvRfRm
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