Hong Kong Heritage

Hong Kong Heritage marks the 100th anniversary of the Gresson Street Affray - when five police officers were shot dead by a gang of robbers in a siege in Wan Chai. One of those killed was the Mortimor O' Sullivan, the great uncle of Patricia O' Sulli...

China analyst and author Mark O’Neill joins Annemarie to talk about a hugely successful Jewish businessman, Silas Aaron Hardoon, who was born in a poor family in Baghad, but would work his way up to become at one point the richest man in Asia. He trav...

DJ tour de force Steve James is marking more than 30 years in the biz.  He's worked for Commercial, Metro and for the past 15 years for RTHK, and he sat down with Annemarie to talk about music, influences, funny voices, satirical songs and taking ...

Antiquarian dealer Jonathan Wattis of Wattis Fine Art shows Annemarie around China In Print, an international fair and exhibition for rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and ephemera.  She meets some of the other exhibitors and finds out how...

In the first half of the programme, Sir Paul Chater's main researcher Liz Chater recounts a recent visit to Kolkata to meet the children of La Martiniere schools where this father of many of Hong Kong's firms and reclamation was given a free educa...

In the first half of the programme, wine connoisseur David Webster talks to Annemarie about his RAF Dad, his early years in 1950s Hong Kong, being a wine pioneer on the mainland and disco nightlife pre Lan Kwai Fong.  Then Chris Leadismo, a park ran...