Hong Kong Heritage

On Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie is chatting with singer, actor, broadcaster Anders Nelsson. How the son of Swedish missionaries blagged his way underage into night clubs, played gigs for gangsters with the Kontinentals, went on to sing for Ming, an...

On the next two programmes of Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie is chatting with singer, actor, broadcaster Anders Nelsson. How the son of Swedish missionaries blagged his way underage into night clubs, played gigs for gangsters with the Kontinentals, we...

China analyst and Irishman Mark O'Neill talks about the Irish Jesuits who came to Hong Kong in 1926 and four key men who served Hong Kong. Father Patrick Joy who helped found the Hong Kong Housing Society; Father Thomas Ryan who reforested Hong Kong af...

Former BBC Beijing correspondent Tim Luard and social activist Lee Cheuk-yan talk about being in Beijing at the time of the Tiananmen protests in 1989. While RTHK's Hugh Chiverton and former RTHK reporter Francis Moriarty give accounts of how Hong Kon...

In the first part of two programmes marking the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, Annemarie talks to Nick Bailey, who was a presenter on Radio 3's Hong Kong Today in the days following the crackdown about his memories of that time, and also p...

  David Bellis of Hong Kong history website https://gwulo.com/ tells Annemarie Evans on Hong Kong Heritage about his upcoming photo talk, why going to the National Archive in London is "just like Christmas", about Route Twisk, mystery Russians, and ...

On this week's Hong Kong Heritage, we go north as China analyst and author Mark O'Neill talks about the May 4th Movement on its 100th anniversary and how the terms of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 at the end of the First World War caused students an...

David Townsend, Principal Fire Investigator for Andrew Moore & Associates talks to Annemarie about heritage buildings and fire safety in the wake of the Notre Dame fire. Later in the programme, British writer Peter Waller talks about his book  The...

On Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans hears about a special collection of Hong Kong travel posters, which date from the 1930s to 1980. Collected by Chris Bailey of Picture This!, they are now owned by Hong Kong Baptist University and will be on show ...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, novelist and history teacher, Paul Letters, talks about his novel "The Slightest Chance", set in Hong Kong in the second world war, with one of the lead characters based on a real prison camp escapee.

Annemarie heads up to the Yuet Tung China Works, which has been a Hong Kong company since 1928, so 90 years, and is the last one to do handpainted porcelain on the premises.  She joins Joseph, the grandson of the founder, and his wife Ruby Ip Tso,...

British resident Iain Leighton revisits a Hong Kong childhood, and his mother's family who came down from Shanghai.