Hong Kong Heritage

Former Hong Kong civil servant Rachel Cartland and I continue to chat about the expanding towns of the New Territories, the seminal television show Under the Lion Rock, and the challenges that faced the government from the 1970s onwards. Rachel Cartla...

Rachel Cartland worked for the Hong Kong govt for 34 years after arriving here from the UK in 1972 at the age of 22. Rachel has written her memoirs in the book: Paper Tigress: A Life in the Hong Kong Government.

Priest and missionary Father Vincent Lebbe was born in Belgium in 1877 and had already decided at the age of 11 to be a priest. China analyst and author Mark O’Neill tells me about this courageous man, who put his mainland local community ahead of him...

Ophelia Chan of Herbal Bliss and Jessica Lau of SEED show me around the organic vegetable market in Central; PR guru Kate Kelly tells me about Scottish runner Eric Liddell, who was the subject, along with Harold Abrahams, of the film Chariots of Fire. ...

A new book by Christopher De Wolf is part a celebration of the street and rooftop life of urban Hong Kong, and partly a critique of how the government is failing to create a well-planned environment for its residents and pedestrians.  He and Annem...

Annemarie joins Alex Hofford of WildAid to look at “On Sharks and Humanity”, the work of 39 artists addressing the shark’s fin trade in installations, sculptures and visual art. Hong Kong is the epicentre of the shark’s fin trade for soup.

The General Post Office in Central, built in 1976, is under threat of demolition.  But could the building be used in a different way?  Katty Law, of the Central and Western Concern Group, and Charles Wai, a PhD student in architectural history, thi...

Scotsman Andy Neilson left his native Glasgow in 1977 to come to Hong Kong after five years as a Royal Marine. He came here on a three-contract with the Royal Hong Kong Police. With his then wife and longtime business partner Laura McAllister he woul...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, China analyst Mark O'Neill continues his look at the run-up to the handover, as 3.3 million Hong Kong people were denied right of abode in the UK and Mark wasn't allowed to talk to the queen, so bent the ear of Sir...

Sports writer Nazvi Careem joins me on this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage to talk about growing up in Hong Kong, playing with his brother in Kowloon Park (he's on the right, here). Those golden days of street snacks and being allowed to play on gr...

Katty Law of the Central and Western Concern Group tells me about Central's tong laus, under threat of demolition for the URA's H19 project. Later in the programme Phil Kenny, who writes the Hong Kong and Macau Film Stuff blog, talks about Roger M...

Chris B, who has been described by Time Magazine as the "tattooed fairy godmother of the Hong Kong scene", joins me on this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage to talk about organising hundreds of live acts here, her singing career, which began at age 10 ...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, artist Brian Tilbrook talks to Annemarie about designing theatre sets, in the late 70s for West Side Story - Jets and Sharks? Make that Triads! And working for the Carrian Group before it went bankrupt amid murde...

Veteran journalist Ching Cheong was 18 years old when the riots broke out in May, 1967. They began in a plastic flower factory in San Po Kong where there was much discontent about working conditions. But they also would harness radicals influenced b...

Veteran journalist Ching Cheong was 18 years old when the riots broke out in May, 1967. They began in a plastic flower factory in San Po Kong where there was much discontent about working conditions. But they also would harness radicals influenced by ...

Cha chaan tengs are part of our urban landscape.  A café where east meets west, a mix of Chinese and international dishes and a Hong Kong quirky take on what that means.  MR S. Y. Punti (www.mrsypunti.com) is situated in David Lane, Sai Ying Pun, wher...

Walk through Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island and below your feet could be pottery and other items dating back 6,000 years. Archaeologists Mick Atha and Kennis Yip researched the back beach of Sha Po village on Lamma. Their research tells the story of ...