Hong Kong Heritage

Ken Arnold, the creative director of the Wellcome Trust gives Annemarie a tour of the exhibition Contagious Cities; Far Away, Too Close, which was on show at Tai Kwun. The exhibition combines history and art to look at how pandemics have affected Hon...

Joel Delacy has been working at Commercial Radio for the past 40 years, he joined his father there and his first job was working for broadcaster Aileen Bridgewater manning the phones. Over the years, Joel has met multiple celebrities and covered ple...

This week, Annemarie chats with Mrs Molly Odell, who was born in 1931 in Baghdad. She would later marry, David Odell, in Hong Kong, the son of Hong Kong’s first impresario Harry Odell. Molly Odell was in Shanghai during the Second World War and recal...

During the Second World War, Chinese diplomat Wang Tifu was based in Berlin and would issue visas to thousands of Jews, helping them to escape Nazi Germany. Wang Tifu was forced to work for the Japanese puppet government in Manchukuo or Manchuria in...

Annemarie has a look through the programmes and picks some sounds interviews from the previous year, including the late Michael Wright, who was born on The Peak in 1912; a walk around the South Asian provision stores of Jordan; and to finish up Jingle ...

China analyst and author Mark O' Neill tells Annemarie about Morris "Two Gun" Cohen, born in a Jewish family in Poland, the larger than life East End London pickpocket who would later become Sun Yat-sen's bodyguard. He was loyal to his fellow Chines...

The Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir marks its 40th anniversary this year and Annemarie joins them at a rehearsal with some beautiful traditional hymns and Christmas Fare. Conductor Colin Touchin, and choir members Michael Price and Bill Kong tell th...

This week on Hong Kong Heritage with Annemarie Evans, it's the final programme in a second five-part series looking back at 90 years of broadcasting in Hong Kong, and the 90th anniversary of RTHK. This weekend, Commercial Radio veteran broadcaster Joel...

On Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans continues with a second five-part series on the 90th anniversary of public service broadcasting in Hong Kong. This week we hear from former RTHK DJ Gerry Jose recalling early disco; and Rachel Cartland talking abo...

As Annemarie Evans continues a look-back at 90 years of broadcasting in Hong Kong, we hear how the former director of broadcasting James Hawthorne would introduce both television and also independent news to RTHK; about the television series Below t...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans begins a second five-part series to mark the 90th anniversary of public broadcasting in Hong Kong. We rejoin events in the late 1960s as Robert Chua Wah-peng talks about his creation, the TVB entert...

David Bellis of the Hong Kong history website Gwulo.com talks about his latest book of Hong Kong photos and the stories behind them: Hong Kong Photos and the Tales the Tell Volume 1. But Nigel Sharman of the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir introdu...

David Bellis of the Hong Kong history website Gwulo.com talks about his latest book of Hong Kong photos and the stories behind them: Hong Kong Photos and the Tales the Tell Volume 1. But Nigel Sharman of the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir introduc...

Photographer Keith MacGregor talks to me about his solo exhibition at Usagi gallery of nostalgic street photos from the 1970s and 80s and neon. And then, we celebrate DJ Steve James' radio personality award from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Katie Ho talks to me about the family business - Olympia Graeco Egyptian Coffee - a Hong Kong institution since 1927, and the original roasters of the Peninsula. It was founded by an Egyptian from Greece, who I...

Dr Judith Mackay came to Hong Kong in 1967 to join her husband, also a doctor. In the early 1980s, she took on the tobacco industry, and hasn’t stopped. Over the past 30 years she has travelled widely in Asia helping governments implement tobacco cont...

In 1969, Sindhi businesswoman Mohini Gidumal opened a 200 sq ft shop with a friend at Ocean Terminal, called Town House, which evolved into a much larger luxury tableware company. Born in 1937, Mrs Gidumal grew up in the Philippines.