Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans (W4/VP9KF), who writes:
Oh no, I spotted another radio to identify in about a 1 second clip from “Death In Paradise”, Series 9, Episode 7.
This should be easier, but is it?
Bonus points for the name of the lizard!
Oh! That’s a tough one. Thanks for sharing, Paul!
Please comment if you can correctly ID this radio (or the lizard)!
Pretty unique symmetric front face (top face?) design with 5 push buttons in the middle and 2 rotary controls left and right, there are not many of those: Looks like a Schneider Frères “Major” made in France:
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/schneider_major.html
BTW someone turned an old Schneider Frères radio into a pretty cool touchscreen internet radio:
http://radiobasteleien.blogspot.com/2019/01/schneider-freres-rondo-internetradio.html
Correct! The TV series is made on Guadeloupe, so it was a direct import from the ‘home country’ and was probably just laying around. It would have been made near Le Mans. Schneider was taken over a couple of times in the later 1960s, the last one being Philips. This one looks like it was perhaps post-Philips takeover because the knobs and trim are a little bit modernised.
Yes, the lizard is ‘Harry’ and he is CGI and not ‘real’ as the discussion in many UK newspaper stories!
There appear to be a 6 band and 7 band versions (additional buttons instead of the two knobs, 5 buttons, two knobs format).
WARNING! There are more screen star radios coming 🙂
Yay! What did I win? A radio? Harry? 🙂 (j/k) Indeed, checking WP for who is producing the series gave me a clue where to look.
It’s a Roberts or Hacker.
I can’t identify the radio, but the lizard is called ‘Harry’ ! 🙂
Even in the shadows I must say it resembles my old Telefunken portable. Model No. – not certain.
Definitely looks European in design.
I’m not up on the models produced, but as a rough guess I’d hazard it to be one of the Normende Globetraveller series.
Looks like a portable Telefunken.