Hong Kong Heritage

Antiquarian dealer Jonathan Wattis of Wattis Fine Art shows Annemarie around China In Print, an international fair and exhibition for rare books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and ephemera.  She meets some of the other exhibitors and finds out how...

In the first half of the programme, Sir Paul Chater's main researcher Liz Chater recounts a recent visit to Kolkata to meet the children of La Martiniere schools where this father of many of Hong Kong's firms and reclamation was given a free educa...

In the first half of the programme, wine connoisseur David Webster talks to Annemarie about his RAF Dad, his early years in 1950s Hong Kong, being a wine pioneer on the mainland and disco nightlife pre Lan Kwai Fong.  Then Chris Leadismo, a park ran...

Former Hong Kong civil servant Rachel Cartland and I continue to chat about the expanding towns of the New Territories, the seminal television show Under the Lion Rock, and the challenges that faced the government from the 1970s onwards. Rachel Cartla...

Rachel Cartland worked for the Hong Kong govt for 34 years after arriving here from the UK in 1972 at the age of 22. Rachel has written her memoirs in the book: Paper Tigress: A Life in the Hong Kong Government.

Priest and missionary Father Vincent Lebbe was born in Belgium in 1877 and had already decided at the age of 11 to be a priest. China analyst and author Mark O’Neill tells me about this courageous man, who put his mainland local community ahead of him...

Ophelia Chan of Herbal Bliss and Jessica Lau of SEED show me around the organic vegetable market in Central; PR guru Kate Kelly tells me about Scottish runner Eric Liddell, who was the subject, along with Harold Abrahams, of the film Chariots of Fire. ...

A new book by Christopher De Wolf is part a celebration of the street and rooftop life of urban Hong Kong, and partly a critique of how the government is failing to create a well-planned environment for its residents and pedestrians.  He and Annem...

Annemarie joins Alex Hofford of WildAid to look at “On Sharks and Humanity”, the work of 39 artists addressing the shark’s fin trade in installations, sculptures and visual art. Hong Kong is the epicentre of the shark’s fin trade for soup.