Hong Kong Heritage

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...

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...