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wireman · 22nd Sep 2022, 7:49 pm

For years I have been interested to know if there really was a wartime wind-up radio as I saw one on an old film but didn't remember what film it was from.

The film was "The sea shall not have them" which was recently broadcast on Freeview. The radio appears in scenes in a liferaft.
Fortunately the relevant scene appears in this video:

https://youtu.be/lHUmkW1S6KI

Was this a real radio?

22nd Sep 2022, 7:49 pm	#1
wireman Heptode Join Date: Feb 2021 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Posts: 528	Wind-up Radio? For years I have been interested to know if there really was a wartime wind-up radio as I saw one on an old film but didn't remember what film it was from. The film was "The sea shall not have them" which was recently broadcast on Freeview. The radio appears in scenes in a liferaft. Fortunately the relevant scene appears in this video: https://youtu.be/lHUmkW1S6KI Was this a real radio?