Hong Kong Heritage

Katty Law of the Central and Western Concern Group returns to the programme to talk about her history research into Gutzlaff Street and Cochrane Street, where there are the remains of houses dating back to the late 19th century. One of the owners of t...

Professor  Yvonne Sadovy first became fascinated with marine life as a child when her father gave her a snorkelling mask. She’s been based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong since 1993.  She tells Annemarie about the...

If you walk down Kennedy Road to Gloucester Road across Wan Chai, you criss-cross several streets where reclamation extended the land into the sea. The original seafront Gavin Coates is a senior lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in landscape arch...

In 1985, the Hong Kong team travelled up to Beijing for the World Cup qualifiers.   China was in the same group. Lawrence Yu was Hong Kong’s manager.  The victory that followed was an historic moment in Hong Kong football. Lawrence is also a former ch...

Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school/Cochrane Street – Katty Law (0:00-14:53) In the early 1960s, two friends Vera Waters and Dawn Cragg set up Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school, in essence a finishing school for young ladies who wished to...

British artist Brian Tilbrook first came to live Hong Kong in 1965 and he says throughout his 50-year-career he’s never had a proper job interview. He became the resident artist for the Mandarin Oriental and British Airways and has done hundreds of the...

More than a third of all shark species face extinction due to overfishing primarily for shark's fin soup. Hong Kong is at the centre of the shark's fin trade. Andy Cornish, the WWF's global lead on sharks, joins Annemarie to talk about a global 10 y...

Annemarie has a look at the beautiful exhbition of traditional Chinese children's clothing "Wearable Blessings" at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (on show until March 21) with curator Brian Lam. Many of the clothes have auspicious animals and fruit t...