Global dancefloor: Saigon

全球舞池:西贡

The Documentary Podcast

2025-10-09

36 分钟
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Frank McWeeny heads to the dancefloors of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) to uncover what Vietnamese alternative culture looks and sounds like today. With 70% of the country under 35, young people are the driving force behind a different image of Vietnam, far away from poverty and war. They are asserting their identity through music, fashion and their own take on traditional values. They are changing perceptions of what it means to be Vietnamese in 2025. We hear from DIY music collective Dismal, forward-thinking underground club The Observatory, and members of the nightlife and fashion scenes. Producer/presenter: Frank McWeeny Editor: Susan Marling A Just Radio production
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  • Club M3.

  • You get to be whatever you want to be.

  • We do it good.

  • It's so fast-paced, energetic.

  • We have a lot of people.

  • It's kind of intense.

  • Vietnam is a new country.

  • We get to be with the world.

  • We don't have war anymore.

  • It's fun now.

  • We can create a new country.

  • Keep moving forward, keep growing.

  • That's a new image of Vietnam, I think.

  • We are the very beginning of the club culture, where it's the local.

  • is the one who viewed the scene.

  • Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Frank McQueenie and I'm in Vietnam's biggest city, Ho Chi Minh.

  • Everyone here calls it Saigon.

  • It's official name until the end of the Vietnam War in 1976.

  • To say Saigon is a vibrant place feels like an understatement.