Hong Kong Heritage

On this week’s Hong Kong Heritage Annemarie heads joins lawyer Howard Bilton and photographer William Furniss on Queen’s Road West to look at herbal shops, lanterns, and dried goods stores on one of Hong Kong’s oldest streets and one that is changing f...

On this week’s Hong Kong Heritage Annemarie heads joins lawyer Howard Bilton and photographer William Furniss on Queen’s Road West to look at herbal shops, lanterns, and dried goods stores on one of Hong Kong’s oldest streets and one that is changing f...

In the second part of an interview with history researcher Philip Cracknell along the Wong Nai Chung Gap trail, Annemarie hears about the doomed Battle of Hong Kong ahead of the territory’s surrender to Japanese forces on December 25, 1941, including t...

Christmas Day, 1941, marked the surrender of Hong Kong to the invading Japanese forces 75 years ago. They would control the territory until August 1945. In the next two programmes, Annemarie joins history researcher Philip Cracknell, who researche...

Christmas Day, 1941, marked the surrender of Hong Kong to the invading Japanese forces 75 years ago. They would control the territory until August 1945. In the next two programmes, Annemarie joins history researcher Philip Cracknell, who researche...

Retired British teacher Christine Speak has been visiting Hong Kong for the 165th anniversary of St Paul’s College.  She came there in 1954 with her late husband Reverend Geoffrey Speak, who oversaw the school’s expansion and went on to co-found the En...

Retired British teacher Christine Speak has been visiting Hong Kong for the 165th anniversary of St Paul’s College. She came there in 1954 with her late husband Reverend Geoffrey Speak, who oversaw the school’s expansion and went on to co-found the En...

Where the Court of Final Appeal is now housed was from 1985 to 2011 the home of the Legislative Council. Built in 1912, it was first the supreme court with cells in the basement.  Veteran broadcast journalist Francis Moriarty takes Annemarie for a wa...

Where the Court of Final Appeal is now housed was from 1985 to 2011 the home of the Legislative Council. Built in 1912, it was first the supreme court with cells in the basement.  Veteran broadcast journalist Francis Moriarty takes Annemarie for a wand...