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
- 755
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Walk across Wanchai
If you walk down Kennedy Road to Gloucester Road across Wan Chai, you criss-cross several streets where reclamation extended the land into the sea. The original seafront
Gavin Coates is a senior lect…
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Fri 22 Apr 2016
When Hong Kong’s football team beat Beijing in the World Cup
In 1985, the Hong Kong team travelled up to Beijing for the World Cup qualifiers. China was in the same group. Lawrence Yu was Hong Kong’s manager. The victory that followed was an historic moment…
00:28:40 |
Fri 15 Apr 2016
Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school/Cochrane Street – Katty Law
Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school/Cochrane Street – Katty Law
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In the early 1960s, two friends Vera Waters and Dawn Cragg set up Hong Kong’s first beauty and charm school, in esse…
00:28:56 |
Fri 08 Apr 2016
Artist Brian Tilbrook
British artist Brian Tilbrook first came to live Hong Kong in 1965 and he says throughout his 50-year-career he’s never had a proper job interview. He became the resident artist for the Mandarin Orie…
00:28:25 |
Fri 01 Apr 2016
Robert Nield on custom blockades and opium trading
Robert Nield on custom blockades and opium trading
00:28:11 |
Fri 18 Mar 2016
Sharks with Andy Cornish
More than a third of all shark species face extinction due to overfishing primarily for shark's fin soup. Hong Kong is at the centre of the shark's fin trade. Andy Cornish, the WWF's global lead on…
00:28:53 |
Fri 11 Mar 2016
Photographer Mee Cheung with antiquarian Jonathan Wattis
Photographer Mee Cheung with antiquarian Jonathan Wattis. Part II – David Bellis at May Road.
00:28:37 |
Fri 04 Mar 2016
Wearable Blessings
Annemarie has a look at the beautiful exhbition of traditional Chinese children's clothing "Wearable Blessings" at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (on show until March 21) with curator Brian Lam. Man…
00:28:52 |
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Hong Kong Observatory Director C M Shun – Signal Hill tower
Hong Kong Observatory Director C M Shun – Signal Hill tower
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Fri 12 Feb 2016
Herbal tea – Ophelia Chan and Feng Shui master Cheng Kan Lung
Herbal tea – Ophelia Chan and Feng Shui master Cheng Kan Lung
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Fri 05 Feb 2016
Possession Point and Hong Kong Morris Dancers
Possession Point and Hong Kong Morris Dancers
00:28:53 |
Fri 29 Jan 2016
The Miraculous History of China’s Two Palace Museums
The Miraculous History of China’s Two Palace Museums
00:28:56 |
Fri 15 Jan 2016
American tenor sax player and clarinetist Bob Wilbur and wife, singer Pug Horton
American tenor sax player and clarinetist Bob Wilbur and wife, singer Pug Horton.
00:28:25 |
Fri 08 Jan 2016
British artist Veronica Heywood
British artist Veronica Heywood, daughter of former observatory director and POW
00:28:50 |
Fri 01 Jan 2016
Billie Gill – Ian Gill on his mother, Billie, who was interned at Stanley, lost her young son, but a
00:28:48 |
Fri 25 Dec 2015
The Survivors: A Period Piece - Diana Fortescue on her parents who were in Stanley Internment Camp (
00:28:22 |
Fri 18 Dec 2015
Laurence Lai - Photographer \ Dan Waters - Birthday celebration
On this week’s programme, Annemarie visits photographer Laurence Lai at his gallery at Pier 7 in Central. Then the band leader at Ned Kelly’s Last Stand wishes programme regular Dr Dan Waters a happy…
00:28:36 |
Fri 27 Nov 2015
David Bellis - Gwulo.com Part.2
This weekend on Hong Kong Heritage with me, Annemarie Evans, David Bellis of Gwulo.com shows me Japanese gun dugouts, plus Pinewood Battery as we head down from The Peak, and I hear from Jonathan Wat…
00:28:52 |
Fri 20 Nov 2015
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