#55 – HK‘s television industry, with TV star Vicky Chan 陳偉琪
Vicky Chan 陳偉琪 is a well-known face around Hong Kong, having played Jenny on the hit TVB series Come Home Love: Lo and Behold (愛·回家之開心速遞). She was also previously crowned Miss HK, and separately Miss Chinese Vancouver. She talked about her journey to the big leagues, the pressures of fame in Hong Kong, and the […]
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#54 – Capturing Hong Kong‘s diversity, with Dear Hong Kong co-founder Oskar Valles
Dear Hong Kong is a well-known photo book featuring inspiring people from different countries, all living in Hong Kong, and their contribution to the city. You can check it out here. The stories are outstanding and it also looks super slick. Oskar Valles has interviewed more than 90 people from different countries including teacher and […]
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#53 – Vaccine hesitancy in HK, with infectious disease expert Professor Ben Cowling
Professor Cowling is the Division Head of Epidemiology at HKU and a co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infections Disease Epidemiology and Control. And we’re super excited to have him back on the pod. We talked about vaccine hesitancy, addressed the major fears being expressed by the hesitant, immunisation against variants, the need for […]
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#52 – Empowering women in HK to play more sport, with In The Changing Room podcast host Cissy Radford
Cissy Radford runs a sensational podcast called In The Changing Room, all about women in sport. She also works with WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered HK) and is a passionate advocate for getting people active. We talked about the situation for females in the city, what sports are taking off, and the work that’s […]
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#51 – Colonial British police in Hong Kong, with former officer Guy Shirra
Guy Shirra moved to Hong Kong from England and served as an officer for the Royal Hong Kong Police force from 1967 until the Handover in 1997. His stories are surreal and there were far too many for us to fully cover. He talked about terrorism from across the border in the ’60s, corruption, opium […]
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#50 – Volunteering with the famous, with Time Auction founder Fion Leung
Fion Leung is the founder of Time Auction, a tech-enabled charity connecting volunteers with their idols. The group enlists famous and important voices in the region, who give up their time to reward those who give their time to charities. It’s a far out idea that’s taken off. Get more details at https://timeauction.org/ She’s also […]
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#49 – The debacles and victories of HK‘s vaccine situation
The vaccine rollout in Hong Kong has been both sensational and a total circus. There’s been ineffective vaccines, halts on BioNTech, people getting the wrong vaccine, vaccinated people getting sick, and somehow Andy and Mo managed to get jabbed. We diced up all the gory details.
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#48 – The man in HK revolutionising how we make coffee, with John Buckman
John Buckman’s a London-born, French-raised, kind-of American who cut his teeth founding companies in Silicon Valley that aimed to make the world fair. His most recent project is Decent Espresso, aimed at reinventing serious coffee machines, launching them into the digital age, and building a community of obsessed fans who actively participate in making kickass […]
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#47 – The story of why Mohammed fled to China
This is the original interview Andy did with Mohammed Magdi in Shanghai 2015. Mo’s story of leaving the political strife in Egypt to live in northern China is genuinely insane.
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#46 – The most famous gweilo of all time, with 河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers
河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers has a face every Hong Konger knows well. Over his prolific 30-year acting career he’s been THE white guy, appearing in more than 200 soap operas. He’s been in big films and performs the real deal Cantopop. He also famously blew the city away when he unleashed Cantonese rap of ‘Forever […]
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