The Works

With us in the studio tonight we have three distinguished alumni of the Asian Youth Orchestra, or AYO: Dora Lam, Chen Yi-chun and Anna Kwan. They are now members of the cello section of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. They are playing for us a ce...

One of the most popular sets of emails and posts circulating on the internet is essentially about optical illusions, more specifically the work of street artists or madonnari who turn two dimensional road surfaces into three dimensional imagery Now the...

Movie sequels don’t always live up to their predecessors. Just look at “Shrek 4” and “Predators” for examples. Now “Toy Story 3” is here, just in time for summer, bringing us the latest adventures of Woody, Buzz and the gang. Reviewer Gary Pollard feel...

Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type revolutionised publishing. Digital books or e-books may be the next revolution. The first batch of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers, launched in November 2007, sold out in five hours. By last year, the Kindle and Sony e-...

Performing live in our studio, and talking to Ben Tse about their upcoming China tour, are local Indie Band Chochukmo.

Arts Diary

The Hong Kong Tap dance festival, Beat.Me.Tap.2 ran from Friday to Sunday last week. The concerts, at Sha Tin Town Hall didn’t just provide a chance for local tap dancers to gain on stage experience, it also allowed them to improve their skills by watc...

Art education is about many things, including learning the techniques and skills of your chosen art form, as well as its history and context.But one of the hardest things to teach would-be artists and designers is how to look at the world from a new or...

Tonight, we’re delighted to have in our studio American musician Mary Fahl. You may remember her song “Going Home” from the soundtrack of “The Lord of the Rings”. In today's show she sings "Gravity" from her new album.

Arts Diary