Discovering my mother was a Vietnamese rock'n'roll star

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A chance email led Hannah Ha to uncover her mother Tam’s forgotten musical legacy.

Hannah knew her mother could sing. When she took the stage at karaoke, she always stole the show. But when a chance email revealed she had once been a recording artist called Phuong Tam in 1960s Saigon, she was stunned. Hannah embarked on a two-year hunt to track down her mother’s long-lost recordings – and her rock 'n' roll legacy.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: Zoe Gelber

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	World of Secrets, Season 2 investigates allegations
0:35.8	surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, T.B. Joshua.
0:41.9	Search for World of Secrets wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:46.4	I have too many signatures.
0:50.0	Like a tenderly and you never know.
1:00.4	And I love you and you are long-worming for me please give your loving her to me
1:04.8	my guest today loves to sing
1:07.8	do you smile to tell my lover, Mona Lisa.
1:13.6	She has favourites.
1:14.6	Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole.
1:17.5	Then you and I came wandering by...
1:23.5	This is Fung Tam, or just Tam, to those who know her.
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