Pete Spurrier on Hong Kong Heritage
Posted: January 18th, 2011 | 4 Comments »I’ve mentioned Pete Spurrier’s excellent Heritage Hiker’s Guide to Hong Kong previously. Since it was published it’s consistently been a top 10 selling English language book in Hong Kong. Now, people do like going walking and hiking in Hong Kong and walking books do well, but I like to think that support for Pete’s book is also linked to changing attitudes in the former Colony about heritage and preservation. These changing attitudes are hopefully on both sides of the tracks – the government not simply handing over heritage to be, invariably, bulldozed by property developers and ordinary people getting involved more and more (especially yoiung people as we saw with the campaign (ultimately unsuccessful) to save the Central ferry pier clock tower.
Anyway, I was in Hong Kong last week and took the opportunity to meet up with Pete, take a walk along some of the conservation and heritage sites around Hollywood Road and the mid-levels area and have a chat about what’s going on in the heritage and preservation movement in the SAR. Click PF & Pete Spurrier – HK Heritage pod – 11 Jan 2011 to listen (it’s only about ten minutes long)
(PS: this podcast was done for Ethical Corporation magazine, a publication I write a column for)
Hi Paul. I can’t seem to open the file – permission problems. Does it work for anyone else and if so can they tell me how they did it.
Thanks, Phil
weird – just opened ok for me through a click, then itunes, then my ‘orrible North London tones. That’s about it for me technically though I’m afraid – Paul
Thanks – no problem, i’ll persevere.
Just be thankful your not from the Midlands. Not sure I could hack 10 minutes of a Noddy Holder soundalike.
Okay, had to re-install itunes and it worked. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.