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Transcript of the Governor's interview
Following is a transcript of an interview with the Governor, the Rt Hon Christopher Patten, today (Thursday) on RTHK's (Chinese) programme simultaneously translated:
Speaker: Rifkind has said Chris Patten upholds the interests of Hong Kong. What does Patten want to do before 1997, and what can he do? Everybody says that he works according to his conscience. But whenever you are in the quiet of night, would you ask yourself whether you can really face up to everything?
The programme today is 'Across the Heart'. This afternoon at 3 o'clock, Leung Ka-wing and Cheng Shu-yan have invited the Governor, Chris Patten, to review the work for '96. It is now nine-minutes-past-three and this afternoon we've got Leung Ka-wing, Cheng Shu-yan and Leung Ying-yee. Hello colleagues. Well, the arrangement is rather special today because Ho Yin-yee is in Broadcast Drive, and I, Leung Ka-wing and Cheng Shu-yan are in the Queensway Government Offices in readiness to interview the Governor.
Yes, I can see that the two of you are very serious and cautious and very nicely dressed to meet Mr Patten.
Yes, of course, whenever we do anything we are always very serious and today we are interviewing a very important person, the Governor of Hong Kong - although we are separated by distance - but our programme still starts from 3.00 and goes on until 6,00. Every Thursday we have 'Across the Heart' and today our honoured guest is Mr Patten.
Perhaps I should tell you what other programmes we have in store for you later. On Thursday we have 'Across the Heart', and after 'Across the Heart' we will have a satirical talk-show 'Ka Sai Tong'. After that we will also have the Financial News and we will have an analyst, Mr Tso Chin, analysing situations for us. And from Holland, we've got a Dutch analyst to analyse the international situation. We also have a segment where the audience are welcome to call-in and have a talk-show about matters pertinent to Hong Kong. As I have mentioned, the specialist for this afternoon is Mr Tso, on political issues and analysis.
For our newscast we have, oh, good news about cheap bargains. Where? Where? Taxis of course. That's strange. Yes, and taxi drivers will also give you discount cards so that they can keep their regulars. Is that a course against the law and is everybody in favour of it?