William Lee Adams

🎙️ Senior Journalist @bbcworldservice 🇻🇳 My documentary "Vietnam: Return to Banana Garden Market" is available now on @BBCiPlayer ✍️ Author of "Wild Dances"

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🇻🇳 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

Why did four countries quit Eurovision? I joined BBC World News America anchor @CarlNasman to discuss how political pressure, public voting, and Israel’s participation shaped the decision.

#eurovision #eurovision2026

https://t.co/pzTWNgHjbb

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🌏 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

👑 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

[Foreign Press Association in London @FPALondon]

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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

✨ 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

[David Friend @dfriend]

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: https://t.co/aVRi0n1xEf

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

@bekawake1971 @BBC Thank you! Luckily we go live at 10:51 local time here in Manchester, so the time zones work in our favour. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🎙️ 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🥳 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.

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🎤 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.

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🎙️ 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

📣 "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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

@annadoble 🤩 🖤 He has great taste!

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

📻 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

@bwthornton @bbcworldservice Really enjoyed Petra’s film — definitely worth a watch!

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🇨🇺 “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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🤘 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

@97_Hayden @BanffMedia @BBC_Travel Thank you Hayden! I love Alan Carr so my allegiance was split! 🎉 📺

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🏆 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

[William Lee Adams @willyleeadams]

🎥 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.