Hong Kong Heritage

Well, Typhoon Meranti passed us by but some of Hong Kong's other typhoons have been devastating. This week, Annemarie heads to the Observatory in Tsim Sha Tsui, to talk with the Hong Kong Observatory director Shun Chi-Ming about typhoons.

On this week's programme Carmen Yau, a master's student of social work at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, talks about her maternal grandfather, her gung gung, who was a cloth businessman who came from near Shanghai. He and his wife had eleven child...

Following the collapse of a wall at the former Central Police Station – a grade 1 monument status set of buildings – conservation activist Katty Law asks what went wrong. She tells Annemarie about the history of the compound and how she’d like to see...

80 years ago British Airways carried out its first flight to Hong Kong. It involved a number of planes and eight days of travel across the world. In 1936, it was known as Imperial Airways and the few people who could fly paid for very expensive ticket...

Katty Law of the Central and Western Concern Group returns to the programme to talk about her history research into Gutzlaff Street and Cochrane Street, where there are the remains of houses dating back to the late 19th century. One of the owners of t...

Professor  Yvonne Sadovy first became fascinated with marine life as a child when her father gave her a snorkelling mask. She’s been based at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong since 1993.  She tells Annemarie about the...

If you walk down Kennedy Road to Gloucester Road across Wan Chai, you criss-cross several streets where reclamation extended the land into the sea. The original seafront Gavin Coates is a senior lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in landscape arch...

In 1985, the Hong Kong team travelled up to Beijing for the World Cup qualifiers.   China was in the same group. Lawrence Yu was Hong Kong’s manager.  The victory that followed was an historic moment in Hong Kong football. Lawrence is also a former ch...

Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school/Cochrane Street – Katty Law (0:00-14:53) In the early 1960s, two friends Vera Waters and Dawn Cragg set up Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school, in essence a finishing school for young ladies who wished to...