Hong Kong Heritage
Every week, journalist, broadcaster and local historian, Annemarie Evans, explores Hong Kong, digging up many (often forgotten or unknown) aspects of our cultural, architectural, and artistic heritage.
Listen live via Radio 3's homepage https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3
Saturdays 7.30am - 8.00am (HKT) - first broadcast
Sundays 6.15pm - 6.45pm (HKT) - repeat broadcast
Podcast available weekly after the first broadcast.
If you would like to share your story or some Hong Kong cultural history with us, please email [email protected]
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 756
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
The Slightest Chance
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, novelist and history teacher, Paul Letters, talks about his novel "The Slightest Chance", set in Hong Kong in the second world war, with one of the lead characte…
00:28:54 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
The Yuet Tung China Works
Annemarie heads up to the Yuet Tung China Works, which has been a Hong Kong company since 1928, so 90 years, and is the last one to do handpainted porcelain on the premises. She joins Joseph, the…
00:28:54 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
Boyhood recollections
British resident Iain Leighton revisits a Hong Kong childhood, and his mother's family who came down from Shanghai.
00:28:49 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close
Ken Arnold, the creative director of the Wellcome Trust gives Annemarie a tour of the exhibition Contagious Cities; Far Away, Too Close, which was on show at Tai Kwun.
The exhibition combines histo…
00:28:55 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
Joel Delacy – 40 years at Commercial Radio
Joel Delacy has been working at Commercial Radio for the past 40 years, he joined his father there and his first job was working for broadcaster Aileen Bridgewater manning the phones. Over the year…
00:28:54 |
Fri 08 Feb 2019
Molly Odell
This week, Annemarie chats with Mrs Molly Odell, who was born in 1931 in Baghdad. She would later marry, David Odell, in Hong Kong, the son of Hong Kong’s first impresario Harry Odell. Molly Odell w…
00:28:45 |
Fri 25 Jan 2019
Wang Tifu
During the Second World War, Chinese diplomat Wang Tifu was based in Berlin and would issue visas to thousands of Jews, helping them to escape Nazi Germany. Wang Tifu was forced to work for the Jap…
00:28:50 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
A Lookback at 2018
Annemarie has a look through the programmes and picks some sounds interviews from the previous year, including the late Michael Wright, who was born on The Peak in 1912; a walk around the South Asian…
00:28:40 |
Fri 11 Jan 2019
Two-Gun Cohen
China analyst and author Mark O' Neill tells Annemarie about Morris "Two Gun" Cohen, born in a Jewish family in Poland, the larger than life East End London pickpocket who would later become Sun Ya…
00:30:00 |
Fri 04 Jan 2019
Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir – 40th Anniversary
The Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir marks its 40th anniversary this year and Annemarie joins them at a rehearsal with some beautiful traditional hymns and Christmas Fare. Conductor Colin Touchin, …
00:28:58 |
Sun 30 Dec 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 2, Part 5)
This week on Hong Kong Heritage with Annemarie Evans, it's the final programme in a second five-part series looking back at 90 years of broadcasting in Hong Kong, and the 90th anniversary of RTHK. Th…
00:28:44 |
Fri 21 Dec 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 2, Part 4)
On Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans continues with a second five-part series on the 90th anniversary of public service broadcasting in Hong Kong. This week we hear from former RTHK DJ Gerry Jose r…
00:28:51 |
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 2, Part 2)
As Annemarie Evans continues a look-back at 90 years of broadcasting in Hong Kong, we hear how the former director of broadcasting James Hawthorne would introduce both television and also independe…
00:28:26 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 2, Part 1)
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie Evans begins a second five-part series to mark the 90th anniversary of public broadcasting in Hong Kong. We rejoin events in the late 1960s as Robert C…
00:28:48 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Hong Kong Photos and the Tales they Tell (R)
David Bellis of the Hong Kong history website Gwulo.com talks about his latest book of Hong Kong photos and the stories behind them: Hong Kong Photos and the Tales the Tell Volume 1. But Nigel Sh…
00:28:40 |
Sun 18 Nov 2018
Hong Kong Photos and the Tales they Tell
David Bellis of the Hong Kong history website Gwulo.com talks about his latest book of Hong Kong photos and the stories behind them: Hong Kong Photos and the Tales the Tell Volume 1. But Nigel Shar…
00:28:40 |
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Photographer Keith MacGregor and DJ Steve James
Photographer Keith MacGregor talks to me about his solo exhibition at Usagi gallery of nostalgic street photos from the 1970s and 80s and neon. And then, we celebrate DJ Steve James' radio personalit…
00:28:51 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
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