Broadcaster and foodie, Saadia Usmani is all set to take to the airwaves with her new weekly cooking show called On The Menu on Saturday 4 July 2020 between 8.30 and 9am on RTHK Radio 3.

Each week you can join Saadia as she introduces you to some of her favourite world recipes, made simple and easy for you to try at home. Every other week she will showcase the diverse communities in Hong Kong by joining local cooks in their kitchen to share their recipes and food related memories, including great recipes from Africa, Egypt, Italy and the UK!

On The Menu aims to get people from all walks of life cooking with confidence with easy to follow steps, tips and techniques, using accessible local ingredients.

With South Asian roots, Saadia was brought up in the UK and spent a lot of her time in the kitchen with her mum, an entrepreneur and an amazing cook who ran her own ‘take-away’ in the 1970’s in Tooting, South West London. Food played a major role in her family, inspiring her interests in cooking. Saadia has lived and travelled to many countries, experiencing a diversity of cuisines, picking up a range culinary skills along the way.

This coming July 1st holiday, join us for “Made in Hong Kong”, a very special Radio 3 concert at 1.10 in the afternoon, dedicated to you, and music lovers everywhere. From RTHK Studio 1, Carolyn Wright and Paul Haswell bring you the amazing ska sounds of The Red Stripes, featuring Pete Millward’s Celestial Sound System, and guitar virtuoso Eugene Pao. As the gig scene in this town gets back on its feet, let’s help it on its way, and celebrate everything that is… MADE IN HONG KONG. 

Operation Santa Claus (OSC) is the annual charity campaign jointly organised by Radio Television Hong Kong and the South China Morning Post. It aims to support the Hong Kong community and beyond, through the combined charitable fundraising power of two of Hong Kong’s most respected news organisations. Over the past 32 years, it has raised more than HK$316 million for nearly 300 charities.

We are now inviting a new round of funding proposals. The maximum funding amount per project is HK$1 million. We will also welcome the submission of COVID-19-related projects addressing coronavirus relief proposals and other recovery plans for the community.
Eligibility:
-       Be a non-profit organisation registered in Hong Kong
-       Submit a detailed proposal on how your programmes bring positive change to the lives of disadvantaged people in Hong Kong.
 Submission deadline: 17th July 2020 (Friday) 5:00PM
Application results announcement: September 2020
 For details, guidelines and submission, please visit https://osc.scmp.com/osc_grant
 For inquiries, please call 2680 8159 or email to osc@scmp.com.
 We look forward to supporting your projects to help transform the lives of people in need. 

Discover Radio 3's ever growing collection of podcasts here.

Updated daily, it includes all of our popular weekly programme segments, our news output, and several of our completely home made audio books, specially adapted for us by their authors.

This coming Saturday afternoon at 12.05, join us for more Good Ol' Country with Michael Lance. Apart from being one quarter of the amazing Metro Vocal Group, he's lived and breathed country music since he was small. Michael was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and raised on beef, corn, and potatoes. At a young age, he travelled North America with his family's Country and Western band, and developed a love for those great story driven songs, sung by some of the greatest story tellers of all time. Stand up, find a partner, and dance the two-step to some....Good Ol' Country. (Saturdays, 12.05pm-1pm, Facebook: @nebraskamike)

After a long break, Kevin Lewis is back on Sunday nights on Radio 3 from 14 June. As usual the focus is on new music; crafted, chilled and soulful sounds ideal for late night on Sunday. Kevin's been busy collecting some fine new albums to feature, and here’s a selection of what's planned for the next few weeks.

The British R&B and jazz singer Tony Momrelle is one of the current lead vocalists of the very excellent acid jazz band Incognito. “The Best is Yet to come”, his latest solo offering, follows up his 2015 “Keep Pushing” which was featured heavily on Sunday Late.

Trinidadian bass guitarist and songwriter, Tony Wilson was best known for his time with soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. This rare 1992 collection, issued before he passed away in 2007, features less well known solo material and tracks that Tony wrote or produced with other artists.

Kandace Springs is an American jazz and soul singer and pianist. This is her third album, released in March, and follows up “Soul Eyes” and “Indigo” both of which were featured on Sunday Late in 2018.

Jhené Aiko’s third album, “Chilombo” was recorded in Hawaii, and inspired by the island's natural landscape and features traditional singing bowls. The album featured a range of guests including rappers Nas, Ty Dolla $ign and Future, as well as R&B singers John Legend, Miguel, and H.E.R..

You can enjoy all this and much more in the coming weeks with Kevin on Sunday Late (10pm - 2am).

Summer is here, and we're bringing a little more music to your Saturday evenings, by changing things around just a bit. At 6.10pm musicologist and DJ, Mengzy is back with a brand new series of her awesome EDM and interview show The Breakdown. After 7 Simon Willson continues to take you back...way back, with two hours of absolute Soul Sensations. From 9 to 10 we'll just get out of the way and let you enjoy some wall to wall, uninterrupted classic hit "gold", in Radio 3 Mixtape.