Former Hong Kong civil servant Rachel Cartland and I continue to chat about the expanding towns of the New Territories, the seminal television show Under the Lion Rock, and the challenges that faced the government from the 1970s onwards. Rachel Cartla...

Rachel Cartland worked for the Hong Kong govt for 34 years after arriving here from the UK in 1972 at the age of 22. Rachel has written her memoirs in the book: Paper Tigress: A Life in the Hong Kong Government.

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 man, who put his mainland local community ahead of him...

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 with Harold Abrahams, of the film Chariots of Fire. ...

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 environment for its residents and pedestrians.  He and Annem...

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 epicentre of the shark’s fin trade for soup.

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 Charles Wai, a PhD student in architectural history, thi...

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 and longtime business partner Laura McAllister he woul...