Hong Kong Heritage

Annemarie returns to Tai O with former Marine Police commander Les Bird as they look at the history of Tai O Police Station, where Les  was an inspector for West Lantau in the late 1970s. Built in 1902 to combat piracy, the station was the site of a m...

Annemarie returns to Tai O with former Marine Police commander Les Bird as they look at the history of Tai O Police Station, where Les  was an inspector for West Lantau in the late 1970s. Built in 1902 to combat piracy, the station was the site of a mu...

Former Marine Police commander Les Bird was inspector for West Lantau for 18 months in the late 1970s. He lived at Tai O Police Station, now the Tai O Heritage Hotel. He recently wrote a memoir of his more than 20-year career between 1976 and 1997 ...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans talks to writer Mark O'Neill about three HSBC men who were not only instrumental in the fortunes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank but Hong Kong as a whole. Sir Thomas Jackson takes the bank forward...

Long-time Hong Kong resident Chris Hall first fell in love with Chinese textiles in 1978 and has since then built up one of the top 10 collections in the world, including items dating back 2000 years. He tells Annemarie about animal motifs to prote...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, homegrown Hongkonger Lindsay Varty talks about her book, Sunset Survivors, on the fast disappearing artisan trades of - largely - Yau Ma Tei. In the next two programmes, we take a wander around the district, and...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, homegrown Hongkonger Lindsay Varty talks about her book, Sunset Survivors, on the fast disappearing artisan trades of - largely - Yau Ma Tei. In the next two programmes, we take a wander around the district, and L...