Hong Kong Heritage

Cockroaches like to live in warm electric appliances. So, says entomologist Stuart Morton, what you think are coffee grinds could be... Join me and Stuart on Hong Kong Heritage on Radio 3 to talk about cockroaches and mossies.

Author Andrew Hicks tells Annemarie about Jack Jones, who in the late 1940s organised the transport out of then Chungking for the volunteer Friends Ambulance Unit - travelling thousands of miles in old trucks, often run on charcoal, to provide medical...

This weekend, Annemarie joins history tour guide Chow Chung-wah, of Walk In Hong Kong (www.walkin.hk) for a tour around North Point, an older area with a strong Fujianese culture.  They visit the Sunbeam Theatre, check out some sights of the 1967 ri...

This weekend's Hong Kong Heritage - Anniemarie Evans talks to local conservationist Katty Law - but not about conservation topics - instead she recalls the Chinese New Year of her childhood, when she used to go with her family to the New Territories t...

Have you ever been put under general anaesthetic for an operation?  Well, that was Dr Jean Allison’s job, to put patients into an induced coma. She came from Australia in 1965 to work in hospitals here for the next three decades.  She was recently in ...

In this weekend's programme, Annemarie continues a tour with public relations officer Calvin Kwok of the gun emplacements, bunkers and batteries that were a part of Lei Yue Mun Fort, now the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence. There is the accommodat...

Over the next two programmes of Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie joins the public relations officer at The Museum of Coastal Defence, Calvin Kwok, to take a look at the gun emplacements, batteries, all the stuff on the outside of the museum, most dating ...

In this weekend’s Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie continues her chat with Paul Chan of Walk In Hong Kong on the Death and Life Tour in Sheung Wan. We take up from last week at the Kwong Fuk Temple, also known as the one hundred surnames temple, where w...