Hong Kong Heritage

 In part two of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June marking the 90th anniversary of RTHK, we hear about longtime presenter Aileen Woods, who started out with her twin sister as a vaudeville singing act and first came to Hong Kong in ...

This weekend marks the start of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June, looking at the early years of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK, which started out as the call sign GOW in 1928. In this week's prog...

 On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Roger Garcia, Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, talks to Annemarie about this year's festival, which starts on Monday, March 19, and how his love of movies started at school....

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Roger Garcia, Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, talks to Annemarie about this year's festival, which starts on Monday, March 19, and how his love of movies started at school. ...

Historian Stephen Davies gives Annemarie a tour of the Sai Wan Hill Battery and Redoubt, built in the 1890s. She learns how huge guns were hauled manually up the hill, (they were parbuckled!) how far a 9.2" shell will fire, and about the oldest geo...

Historian and author Patricia O’Sullivan tells Annemarie about the early “cadets” recruited from Britain in the first years of colonial Hong Kong – young men who were trained to speak Cantonese fluently, and would later would rise to senior positions i...

A special, three-part series on Radio 3’s Hong Kong Heritage.  Interviews with Michael Wright, 105, at his home in London with producer/presenter Annemarie Evans.  Mr Wright, who was born in Hong Kong in 1912, served as a soldier and later prisoner of ...

A special, three-part series on Radio 3’s Hong Kong Heritage. Interviews with Michael Wright, 105, at his home in London with producer/presenter Annemarie Evans. Mr Wright, who was born in Hong Kong in 1912, served as a soldier and later prisoner of ...

A special, three-part series on Radio 3’s Hong Kong Heritage. Interviews with Michael Wright, 105, at his home in London with producer/presenter Annemarie Evans. Mr Wright, who was born in Hong Kong in 1912, served as a soldier and later prisoner of...

In a full programme, Annemarie hears from war historian Tony Banham about WWII bombs after two are found in one week in Wan Chai; she heads to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum for a beautiful exhibition of export silver; conservationist Katty Law talks of...

Martin Clarke came to Hong Kong in 1983 as an actor and was head of Radio 3 at the time of the handover. He's now a baker in east England. He shares his reflections with Annemarie.

Martin Clarke came to Hong Kong in 1983 as an actor and was head of Radio 3 at the time of the handover. He's now a baker in east England. He shares his reflections with Annemarie.