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THE SOUND AGENTS

Recording Liverpool's Living Memory (est. 2016)
People are hungry for stories.
It’s part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another
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Moira Kenny

BLUE PLAQUE FOR THE DEPORTED CHINESE SEAMEN AND THE CHILDREN AND WIVES LEFT BEHIND

June 25, 2026

A permanent memorial honouring the Chinese seamen deported from Liverpool in 1946 and the families whose lives were changed forever.

John Campbell

Jack Yue MBE Archive

June 25, 2026

Liverpool Record Office receives its first Chinese community archive, preserving the remarkable life and legacy of Jack Yue MBE for future generations.

Pak Chan

Chinese New Year on Nelson Street: Where Tradition Meets Community

June 25, 2026

A Chinese New Year gathering on Liverpool's Nelson Street brought generations together through food, conversation and shared traditions, reminding everyone that community grows around the table.

Mick Ord

Chinese Seamen Memorial

June 29, 2026

A quiet memorial on Liverpool's waterfront honours generations of Chinese seafarers whose work, sacrifice and resilience helped shape one of Britain's oldest Chinese communities.

CREATIVE STUDIO

Public Art, Heritage & Community Projects

Every place has a story worth telling.

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Oral History Workshops

Every voice matters.

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Radio Chinatown

Liverpools greatest archive is living memory.

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Moira Kenny

Artist, heritage practitioner and creative producer using storytelling, oral history and public engagement to preserve community memory.

John Campbell

Oral historian, artist and heritage practitioner documenting the stories, voices and memories that shape communities, culture and place.

Joan Mason

Finance Director with over forty years of experience in banking, financial administration and royalty management within the music industry.

Greg Quiery

Historian, author and researcher specialising in Liverpool's Irish heritage, migration history and community storytelling.

Pak Chan

Photographer, researcher and local history enthusiast who has supported The Sound Agents since 2013 through documentary photography and community heritage projects.

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Moira Kenny

BLUE PLAQUE FOR THE DEPORTED CHINESE SEAMEN AND THE CHILDREN AND WIVES LEFT BEHIND

Honouring forgotten lives through truth, memory and justice.

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Joan Mason

POD CAST: A PLAY ON THE 1946 FORCED DEPORTATION OF CHINESE SEAMEN

Telling the stories history tried hardest to silence.

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John Campbell

INTRODUCING HESTER YANG

Preserving culture through curiosity, conversation and shared memory.

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FLOWER LAYING CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE CHINESE WAR HEROES

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On the 24th August descendants of Chinese seamen who were forcibly deported from Liverpool post WWII joined Chinese Consul General, Manchester Tang Rui and CTGN to lay flowers at the plaque to comm...

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EXHIBITION PLANNED TO MARK LIVERPOOL DOCKERS DISPUTE

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To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Liverpool Dockers dispute of 1995-1998, The Sound Agents; John and Moira, are curating an exhibition of Dockers artefacts including, press cuttings, scrapbooks, ...

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LIVERPOOL CHINATOWN ORAL HISTORY

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The Old Blue Funnel Chinese Office, Nelson Street, Liverpool. A telephone conversation with Marilyn Faulkner, a young typist who worked in the Blue Funnel Shipping Line Office, Nelson Street, Liver...

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THEN ALONG CAME LENNON

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BBC Radio Merseyside Orient Express Billy Hui Interview tonight 9 -10

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Extract from In Conversation with Johnny Lin and Georgie Quarless L1 Oral History Chinatown Moira Kenny 2005 To be continued PROJECT CHINATOWN newspaper publication

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The Sound Agents create public art, heritage projects and oral history programmes that connect people with place. Working with communities, organisations and cultural partners, we capture stories, transform spaces and celebrate local identity.

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BLUE PLAQUE FOR THE DEPORTED CHINESE SEAMEN AND THE CHILDREN AND WIVES LEFT BEHIND

A permanent memorial honouring the Chinese seamen deported from Liverpool in 1946 and the families whose lives were changed forever.

December 9, 2021
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THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS

These films are part of the Chinese and British Exhibition curated by The Sound Agents in the Hornby Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool. The Exhibition ends on March 31st 2023. Child actor: P...

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