Hong Kong Heritage

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 pe...

Michelle Vosper, who was director of the Hong Kong arts programme at the Asian Cultural Council for years, joins Annemarie to talk about her book where she and other writers have interviewed 16 visionary women in the arts field, including four from Hon...

Go along King’s Road in North Point and there by the tram tracks is the State Theatre. It was created in 1952, as the Empire Theatre. And it’s the vision of Heritage activist Haider Kikhaboy that it could be turned into an arts centre. Haider is th...

Go along King’s Road in North Point and there by the tram tracks is the State Theatre. It was created in 1952, as the Empire Theatre. And it’s the vision of Heritage activist Haider Kikhaboy that it could be turned into an arts centre. Haider is th...

Moyreen Tilbrook moved to Hong Kong in 1965 and worked as a teacher. Her husband is artist Brian Tilbrook.  Moyreen has been active for more than 40 years in improving the lot of women here – highlighting the plight of battered woman, rape victims an...

Moyreen Tilbrook moved to Hong Kong in 1965 and worked as a teacher. Her husband is artist Brian Tilbrook.  Moyreen has been active for more than 40 years in improving the lot of women here – highlighting the plight of battered woman, rape victims and...

China analyst and author Mark O’Neill tells Annemarie about the life of Sir Robert Hart, who was a British diplomat in China, who served as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service for nearly 50 years.  Mark has written...

China analyst and author Mark O’Neill tells Annemarie about the life of Sir Robert Hart, who was a British diplomat in China, who served as the second Inspector-General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service for nearly 50 years.  Mark has written...

Michael Wright is 104 and lives in London. He's also the former head of the Public Works Department and the subject of a documentary, The Michael Wright Chronicle, by Chloe Lai of heritage group Urban Diary.  He was a prisoner of war and also instru...

Michael Wright is 104 and lives in London. He's also the former head of the Public Works Department and the subject of a documentary, The Michael Wright Chronicle, by Chloe Lai of heritage group Urban Diary.  He was a prisoner of war and also instru...

Annemarie heads to Pokfulam village to join artist Evelyna Liang Kan to make radish cake and get to know the residents of this historic village, the last of its kind on Hong Kong Island.

Annemarie heads to Pokfulam village to join artist Evelyna Liang Kan to make radish cake and get to know the residents of this historic village, the last of its kind on Hong Kong Island.

On this week's Hong Kong Heritage... John Hung is the former chairman of Wheelock and co and executive director of Wharf Holdings. He has a good understanding of what Donald Tsang will mentally be going through and what he can expect at Stanley Prison...

British history researcher Patricia O’Sullivan joins Annemarie to talk about Henry Earnest Wodehouse, who was a magistrate in Hong Kong from the 1880s. He was also the father of comic author P G Wodehouse, of Jeeves and Wooster fame. Later in the pro...

British history researcher Patricia O’Sullivan joins Annemarie to talk about Henry Earnest Wodehouse, who was a magistrate in Hong Kong from the 1880s. He was also the father of comic author P G Wodehouse, of Jeeves and Wooster fame. Later in the pro...

Poet Henrik Hoeg of Peel Street Poetry talks to Annemarie about coming to Hong Kong at the age of eight and his book "Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People" and how he used to be quite a poker player.  Then there's two Hong Kong history question...

Poet Henrik Hoeg of Peel Street Poetry talks to Annemarie about coming to Hong Kong at the age of eight and his book "Irreverent Poems for Pretentious People" and how he used to be quite a poker player.  Then there's two Hong Kong history question...

David Bellis, of HK history website, Gwulo.com, joins Annemarie to look through some books in the study of the late Dan Waters, a programme regular, who died last year at age 95.  David finds facts on hunting and trapping licences and then tells of...

David Bellis, of HK history website, Gwulo.com, joins Annemarie to look through some books in the study of the late Dan Waters, a programme regular, who died last year at age 95.  David finds facts on hunting and trapping licences and then tells of...

In the first half of this Lunar New Year programme, Annemarie talks with China author Mark O’ Neill about a woman pioneer made in Hong Kong. Florence Li Tim-oi was the first woman to be ordained into the priesthood of the Anglican church worldwide. T...