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
Father Vincent Lebbe
Priest and missionary Father Vincent Lebbe was born in Belgium in 1877 and had already decided at the age of 11 to be a priest. China analyst and author Mark O’Neill tells me about this courageous m…
00:28:34 |
Fri 11 Aug 2017
Organic market and Eric Liddell
Ophelia Chan of Herbal Bliss and Jessica Lau of SEED show me around the organic vegetable market in Central; PR guru Kate Kelly tells me about Scottish runner Eric Liddell, who was the subject, along…
00:28:50 |
Fri 04 Aug 2017
Christopher De Wolf - Borrowed Spaces: Life Between the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong
A new book by Christopher De Wolf is part a celebration of the street and rooftop life of urban Hong Kong, and partly a critique of how the government is failing to create a well-planned environme…
00:28:31 |
Fri 28 Jul 2017
On Sharks and Humanity
Annemarie joins Alex Hofford of WildAid to look at “On Sharks and Humanity”, the work of 39 artists addressing the shark’s fin trade in installations, sculptures and visual art. Hong Kong is the epic…
00:28:30 |
Fri 21 Jul 2017
General Post Office
The General Post Office in Central, built in 1976, is under threat of demolition. But could the building be used in a different way? Katty Law, of the Central and Western Concern Group, and Charl…
00:28:35 |
Fri 14 Jul 2017
Andy Neilson – 40 Years in Hong Kong
Scotsman Andy Neilson left his native Glasgow in 1977 to come to Hong Kong after five years as a Royal Marine. He came here on a three-contract with the Royal Hong Kong Police. With his then wife a…
00:28:47 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
China analyst Mark O'Neill - The handover Part.2
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, China analyst Mark O'Neill continues his look at the run-up to the handover, as 3.3 million Hong Kong people were denied right of abode in the UK and Mark wasn't…
00:28:45 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
A Kowloon Kid
Sports writer Nazvi Careem joins me on this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage to talk about growing up in Hong Kong, playing with his brother in Kowloon Park (he's on the right, here). Those golden da…
00:28:43 |
Fri 16 Jun 2017
Tong Laus and James Bond / Phil Kenny - The Hong Kong and Macau Film Stuff blog
Katty Law of the Central and Western Concern Group tells me about Central's tong laus, under threat of demolition for the URA's H19 project. Later in the programme Phil Kenny, who writes the Hong …
00:28:46 |
Fri 09 Jun 2017
Chris B
Chris B, who has been described by Time Magazine as the "tattooed fairy godmother of the Hong Kong scene", joins me on this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage to talk about organising hundreds of live …
00:28:50 |
Fri 26 May 2017
Brian Tilbrook - Artist
On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, artist Brian Tilbrook talks to Annemarie about designing theatre sets, in the late 70s for West Side Story - Jets and Sharks? Make that Triads! And working for …
00:28:49 |
Fri 19 May 2017
Ching Cheong on the 1967 Riots (R)
Veteran journalist Ching Cheong was 18 years old when the riots broke out in May, 1967. They began in a plastic flower factory in San Po Kong where there was much discontent about working condition…
00:32:00 |
Sun 14 May 2017
Ching Cheong on the 1967 Riots
Veteran journalist Ching Cheong was 18 years old when the riots broke out in May, 1967. They began in a plastic flower factory in San Po Kong where there was much discontent about working conditions.…
00:28:45 |
Fri 12 May 2017
Mr S.Y.Punti
Cha chaan tengs are part of our urban landscape. A café where east meets west, a mix of Chinese and international dishes and a Hong Kong quirky take on what that means. MR S. Y. Punti (www.mrsypunt…
00:28:43 |
Fri 28 Apr 2017
Piecing Together Sha Po Part.2 (R)
Walk through Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island and below your feet could be pottery and other items dating back 6,000 years. Archaeologists Mick Atha and Kennis Yip researched the back beach of Sha Po …
00:32:00 |
Sun 23 Apr 2017
Piecing Together Sha Po Part.2
Walk through Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island and below your feet could be pottery and other items dating back 6,000 years. Archaeologists Mick Atha and Kennis Yip researched the back beach of Sha Po …
00:28:30 |
Fri 21 Apr 2017
Piecing Together Sha Po
Walk through Yung Shue Wan on Lamma Island and below your feet could be pottery and other items dating back 6,000 years. Archaeologists Mick Atha and Kennis Yip researched the back beach of Sha Po vi…
00:28:51 |
Fri 14 Apr 2017
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