{"id":30418,"date":"2018-01-23T09:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30418"},"modified":"2018-01-23T09:02:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:02:27","slug":"can-you-id-this-radio-in-diamonds-are-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/can-you-id-this-radio-in-diamonds-are-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you ID this radio in “Diamonds Are Forever”–?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Chris, who writes:<\/p>\n

Last weekend, I watched a few old James Bond movies and this caught my attention when <\/span>Blofeld<\/a> was listening to a shortwave broadcast:<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Can anyone identify this radio?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Post<\/em> readers:<\/strong> Please comment if you can ID this radio model!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Chris, who writes: Last weekend, I watched a few old James Bond movies and this caught my attention when Blofeld was listening to a shortwave broadcast: Can anyone identify this radio? Post readers: Please comment if you can ID this radio model!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508,3,305],"tags":[6780,5506,5235,681],"class_list":["post-30418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-diamonds-are-forever","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-shortwave-film","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7UC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5488,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-all-india-radio-ravi-shankar\/","url_meta":{"origin":30418,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: All India Radio – Ravi Shankar","author":"Thomas","date":"January 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Ravi Shankar passed away December 11, 2012. 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