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
Mel Jacoby's wartime Asia
Melville Jacoby came to Guangdong in 1936 - it was supposed to be just for a year. But the US student became intensely interested in China and was aware that war loomed. So he returned. US journalist…
00:28:48 |
Fri 10 May 2024
Timeless Diva - Anita Mui
Anita Mui died 20 years ago but her music and movies are popular with a new generation. An exhibition at Hong Kong Heritage Museum celebrates Mui's life - her amazing stage costumes, a longtime colla…
00:26:24 |
Fri 03 May 2024
The Defences of Macau - Richard Garrett
Richard Garrett was involved in the planning of the new town of Sha Tin among other projects - but after he retired he enjoyed writing about weaponry and The Peak. In 2010, he went with Annermarie to…
00:28:24 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Celebrating the Arrival of Sir Catchick Paul Chater in 1860
In a specially extended Hong Kong Heritage Annemarie talks with history researcher Liz Chater and antiquarian Jonathan Wattis about Sir Catchick Paul Chater, the Armenian teenager who arrived in Hong…
00:48:21 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Sir Shouson Chow
Shouson Chow was educated in the US - one of a group of Chinese boys sent to America after the Second Opium War in 1860. He would go on to serve the Qing Dynasty in maritime customs and railways befo…
00:28:52 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
Sir Cecil Clementi
Sir Cecil Clementi was a superb linguist and academic and governor of Hong Kong from 1925 to 1930, a tumultuous time of big strikes and unrest. Clementi empathized with the Chinese but was also conse…
00:28:13 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Norman de Brackinghe - the Hong Kong Years
The multi-talented artist and photographer Norman de Brackinghe, 89, invites Annemarie to his Causeway Bay studio for their second chat about the abstract photography he finds on Hong Kong walls, his…
00:28:52 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
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