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Hong Kongers in the mood for a 'blast from the past' can now get their fill on RTHK's Internet classics channel launched today.

It's called RTHK On The Internet and, using Windows Media Player, people can download radio and television programmes from the past 50 years (starting from the station's first broadcast in the 1950s). Highly acclaimed episodes of the award-winning drama series from the 1970s, Under The Lion Rock (above), are also accessible.

As we all know, RTHK was also the official government mouthpiece during colonial rule so those who want to re-live Queen Elizabeth's visits in 1975 and 1986, Governor Murray MacLehose's inauguration address in 1971, and even an interview with Chris Patten in 1997 can do it anytime, anywhere by logging on to www.rthk.org.hk/classicschannel.

SAR wonders if anyone will lap up this nostalgic novelty, but hey, when the future is bleak, there's nothing better than wallowing in the past.



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