Hong Kong Heritage

It's time for the hungry ghosts to return - so we must put out food to feed and appease. George Wan of Hide and Seek Tours and conservationist Katty Law talked to Annemarie about the Hungry Ghosts Festival at Staunton Street

Antiquarian Jonathan Wattis talks to Annemarie about how George Chinnery's art inspired him to take the path he did - having a gallery in Hong Kong. They also talk about Geoffrey Bonsall and his ability to read Chinnery's shorthand; oil paints and...

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 Bill Lascher inherited Jacoby's photos, journals and...

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 collaboration with fashion designer Eddy Lau; her awards ...

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 the cannons of Macau to talk about one-armed governo...

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 Kong from Calcutta on April 1 1864. He was a pionee...

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 before returning to Hong Kong in 1911. He was director o...

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 conservative who believed in the British Empire. China a...

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 loose landscape art, past exhibitions and we hear h...

Historian Dr Sarah Ng  shows Annemarie her two-part exhibition showing the works of seven artists in “Kings' Inscriptions Contemporary Interpretations” – on show at the Fung Ping Shan Gallery and also at Oi! in North Point.

This past year, the Hong Kong Observatory marked its 140th anniversary. Former director Shu Chi-ming talks to me about his time from 1986 onwards - seismology, radiation and weather forecasting as well as how he invented a wind shear instrument for ru...

Tea in Chater Garden with Bel Ng who runs a small business called Searching Cha. Plus a few minutes at the end of the programme of the original Radio Hong Kong broadcast of the opening of the Cross Harbour Tunnel.

Businessman Robbie Brothers came to Hong Kong at the age of 19 to work for Wheelock Marden in 1960 in their shipping department. There was initially talk of a bridge, but a few years he oversaw the construction of the Cross Harbour Tunnel in 1972. Wi...

Historian Dr Sarah Ng shows Annemarie her two-part exhibition showing the works of seven artists in “Kings' Inscriptions Contemporary Interpretations” – on show at the Fung Ping Shan Gallery and also at Oi! in North Point.

Singer and actor Anders Nelsson gives Annemarie a tour round Tsim Sha Tsui - from the YMCA to noodles at the Haiphong temporary market; the old nightclubs of the 60s where Mongo Santamaria, the Kinks, and Trio Los Panchos came to play. Memories of...

Singer and actor Anders Nelsson gives Annemarie a tour round Tsim Sha Tsui - from the YMCA to noodles at the Haiphong temporary market; the old nightclubs of the 60s where Mongo Santamaria, the Kinks, and Trio Los Panchos came to play. Memories of a...

Jeweller Sunny Ko on  public housing estate childhood; his father as a wood, ivory and jade carver and the family jewellery business. Plus extracts from: Michael Wright; Wing Lee Street; and antiquarian Jonathan Wattis on early photography

Author Paul French, former observatory head Shun Chi-ming, Radio Hong Kong reporters on the street Typhoon Wanda 1962

American lawyer and collector Roy Delbyk on collecting three Beatles signatures out of four from their Hong Kong visit in 1964 plus other collectors’ items.

Authors and journalists Gary Cheung and Oliver Chou talk about Hilton’s life, legacy and how they helped him to co-write his autobiography.

Author Paul French and academic Diana Yeh give a tour of Belsize Park in London while talking about the Chinese literary greats who lived there in the 1930s and 40s.

Author Vaudine England’s latest book on the diverse communities that have made Hong Kong.

American lawyer and collector Roy Delbyk shows a Pan Am bag that went on one of Richard Nixon’s two press planes to Beijing; plus two Hong Kong tennis players – Gem Hoahing and Wei Wing-lock, both of whom should be more celebrated after making it int...

Mechanic, motocross champion and published poet David McKirdy on a poem-filled tour of Sai Kung

Hong Kong veteran singer and Mr EYT Robert Chua join Annemarie to pay tribute to the renowned and talented composer Joseph Koo Kar-fei who died this month at the age of 92. He wrote many of Hong Kong’s beloved classic TV drama theme songs including Be...