Midnight in Peking on the Radio…and Electra House

By way of self-promotion here’s a quick link to me talking about Midnight in Peking on RTHK’s Morning Brew show with Phil Whelan.

As this is technically a history blog I thought I’d better find a suitable picture to accompany this piece of blatant self-aggrandizement. If memory serves I believe that in 1950 many RTHK programmes were recorded or broadcast from the wonderfully named Electra House, Cable & Wireless’s regional headquarters on Connaught Road Central. Sadly gone, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel now occupies the site; a somewhat less impressive building in my humble opinion.