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
Olympia Graeco Egyptian Coffee
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Katie Ho talks to me about the family business - Olympia Graeco Egyptian Coffee - a Hong Kong institution since 1927, and the original roasters of the Peninsul…
00:28:42 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
Dr Judith Mackay - the anti-tobacco campaigner (20-10-2018)
Dr Judith Mackay came to Hong Kong in 1967 to join her husband, also a doctor. In the early 1980s, she took on the tobacco industry, and hasn’t stopped. Over the past 30 years she has travelled widel…
00:28:51 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Mohini Gidumal (13-10-2018)
In 1969, Sindhi businesswoman Mohini Gidumal opened a 200 sq ft shop with a friend at Ocean Terminal, called Town House, which evolved into a much larger luxury tableware company. Born in 1937, Mr…
00:28:53 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Zoher Abdoolcarim
Zoher Abdoolcarim, former Asia Editor, TIME International, talks about his family, whose roots go back in Hong Kong to 1885, growing up in North Point, St Joseph's College, meeting Mahathir and Modi,…
00:28:49 |
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Mani Vachha
Annemarie joins passionate cricket fan and Parsee Mani Vachha at Kowloon Cricket Club. Born in Karachi in 1930, Mani came to Hong Kong in the 1960s amid water shortages and bombs left on streets. Sh…
00:28:46 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
Saadia Usmani
On this weekend’s Hong Kong Heritage…Saadia Usmani has lived in Hong Kong for the past two years and is a real foodie at heart. Annemarie joins her at Wan Chai mosque in Oi Kwan Road to go to the Isl…
00:28:46 |
Fri 31 Aug 2018
Fermi Wong Part.1 (11-8-2018)
This weekend on Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie is joined by Fermi Wong, the founder of NGO Unison, an ardent fighter against racism and discrimination and an outspoken supporter of South Asian communi…
00:28:27 |
Fri 10 Aug 2018
Jonathan Wattis on Chinese photographer Lai Afong
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Lai Afong was the most important 19th Century Chinese photographer. From 1860 to 1890 he ran a studio in Hong Kong, which was then taken over by his son. Afon…
00:28:48 |
Fri 06 Jul 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 1, Part 3)
On this week’s Hong Kong Heritage, Part 3 of a special series highlighting the early decades of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK. Annemarie Evans reports on the beginnin…
00:28:59 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 1, Part 2)
In part two of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June marking the 90th anniversary of RTHK, we hear about longtime presenter Aileen Woods, who started out with her twin sister as a va…
00:28:41 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Hong Kong Heritage - 90 Years of Broadcasting (Series 1, Part 1)
This weekend marks the start of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June, looking at the early years of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK, which started o…
00:28:35 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
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