Veteran broadcast journalist and FCC correspondent member governor Karen Koh convenes a panel discussion and an in-depth, personal and revealing QandA with the audience after a screening of "The M Factor: shredding the silence on menopause" documentary.

The panel includes: Christine Deschemin, a hypnotherapist and founder of the Menopause Festival; Maria Chau, COO of the Women's Foundation, and Brian Henderson, founder of Whole Business Wellness. They explore the physical, emotional, and mental health challenges of menopause and the need for cultural and workplace support. Menopause affects all women, and especially within a city like Hong Kong it is crucial to discuss how different cultures and workplaces can provide better support.

* Evercalm menopause app: https://www.evercalmmenopause.com/

* The Women's Foundation, Hong Kong: https://twfhk.org/

* Whole Business Wellness: https://www.wholebusinesswellness.com/

Theme music composed by Allen Youngblood

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Hong Kong was once the poster-child of artistic freedom in Asia as well as an unparalleled leader of the region's booming contemporary art market. However, despite growing uncertainties over the "red lines" of censorship, there are more world-class art institutions in the city than ever before and the market has proved resilient, with international auction houses and galleries continuing to expand their presence in the city. FCC President Lee Williamson speaks with South China Morning Post arts editor and FCC member Enid Tsui about her new book, Art in Hong Kong, where she analyses the Hong Kong art world's past, present and the possible paths forward as it strives to develop into an international art hub.

Presented by Kriti Gandhi and Jarrod Watt.

Theme music composed by Allen Youngblood

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Hong Kong categorises people who are not Chinese or caucasian as "ethnic minorities" and its media often portrays these people as an underclass of criminals, incapable of making contribution to mainstream society. In this panel discussion, journalist and FCC Clare Hollingworth fellow Jay Ganglani moderates a panel of two prominent trailblazers of African and South Asian heritage, along with a journalist who has covered many issues affecting ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

You'll hear from Jeffery Andrews, Hong Kong's first ever ethnic minority social worker, a tireless contributor to a charity serving marginalised and disadvantaged communities and advisor at Diversity Hub, along with Innocent Mutanga, a former asylum seeker from Zimbabwe, now an investment banker and founder of the Africa Centre for Hong Kong, and South China Morning Post journalist Kathryn Giordano, who has filed many stories on Hong Kong's diverse ethnic minority community.

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Journalist and broadcaster Laura Westbrook sits down with two members of the FCC for two very different perspectives on 2024 and the year that was. Harry Harrison might just be the last surviving daily editorial cartoonist in Hong Kong, and speaks about his favourite news moments of the year, the prospect of drawing Donald Trump for four more years, and the real-life backgrounds and stories of some of his regular characters. Hear also his choice of which of those characters he'd love to see turned into a giant inflatable for a special "mega event" in Hong Kong.

FCC president Lee Williamson talks about 2024 and the FCC's return to its role in showing support for the community of journalists in Hong Kong: from the return of the annual journalism conference and its motto of "let's get to work" to the number of public statements issued by the FCC on behalf of the safety and welfare of journalists and the importance of press freedom. You'll also hear his personal highlights of the guest speakers who came to visit, from economists and political thinkers to Pulitzer Prize winning musician Wynton Marsalis and executive editor the New York Times, Joe Kahn.

Written and produced by Jarrod Watt.

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Hear veteran broadcast journalist Karen Koh in discussion with Chinese foreign correspondent Dr Rose Luqiu and Hong Kong-born international broadcast journalist Laura Westbrook on the upcoming US election, from an Asian perspective: what is being discussed on Chinese social media and in state media, how "third culture" people view the attacks on Kamala Harris' mixed race heritage, how sexism and "strongman" culture dominate Chinese media narrative how US foreign policy is viewed very differently from this side of the world.

Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt

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Grammy and Pulitzer-prize winning trumpeter, composer and band leader Wynton Marsalis has this month toured with his Lincoln Jazz Centre Orchestra through Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong dropped by for a QandA at the FCC with Robin Ewing, director of the Journalism Masters program at Hong Kong Baptist University and presenter of the RTHK3 'Feelin Kinda Sunday' program. It was incidentally the 63rd birthday for Mr Marsalis, and he reflects on his childhood, what he's learned teaching new generations of musicians as well as new compositions of music influenced by a tradition of American jazz in China begun almost 100 years ago. You’ll also hear the audience Q & A session in which Mr Marsalis fields questions about the role of AI in music, gender bias in jazz, comparisons between jazz and journalism, the traditions of democracy and jazz, as well as his deeply felt intellectual response to hip-hop music.

Photo credit: Ben Marans @benmaransphotography

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Author, broadcaster and art critic John Batten discusses the life and legacy of architect IM Pei with Karen Koh, based on his published article in the latest FCC magazine "A Life in Architecture". Hear the history and symbolic post-colonial importance of the design of the Bank of China building, wrongly characterized as "a knife pointed towards China", and of the details you need to know in the M+ exhibition on IM Pei's life and works.

Episode written and produced by Jarrod Watt

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