The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality.

In London, William Lee Adams is feeling disillusioned with his job, when a Romanian singer on a horse appears on his computer screen and he's inspired to start writing about the Eurovision Song Contest. Wiwibloggs is born, and grows to be the world's most-followed independent blog and video channel about Eurovision. In the process, he gets to visit some of the far-flung places he escaped to as a child in the US reading encyclopaedias.

William has written a memoir called Wild Dances: My Queer and Curious Journey to Eurovision.

Presenter: India Rakusen Producer: Rob Wilson

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1:03.0	I see myself on the screen,
1:04.6	but I don't see what's happening on the other side.
1:06.8	But I do see that they've put a picture of Big Bin behind me,
1:10.1	so I look like an envoy from the West.
1:17.2	Then I hear a braying mob,
1:19.7	like a lot of like chanting and noise and a translator begin...
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