{"id":33293,"date":"2018-07-28T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33293"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:44:42","slug":"dan-spot-a-barlow-wadley-xcr-30-in-the-looming-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/dan-spot-a-barlow-wadley-xcr-30-in-the-looming-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan spots a Barlow Wadley XCR-30 in “The Looming Tower”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

[This Barlow Wadley XCR-30 (above)] appears in Episode 4 of The Looming Tower<\/a> on Hulu. Shown sitting in a slum in Nairobi (or a location posing as Nairobi), tuned to what sounds like Radio Australia…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great catch, Dan! If I ever find an XCR-30 in great shape, I think I’ll snag one. I’ve always loved their simple, all-business front panel and legendary–once benchmark–performance.<\/p>\n

Of course, I\u2019ll add this post\u00a0to\u00a0our ever growing archive of radios in film!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: [This Barlow Wadley XCR-30 (above)] appears in Episode 4 of The Looming Tower on Hulu. Shown sitting in a slum in Nairobi (or a location posing as Nairobi), tuned to what sounds like Radio Australia… Great catch, Dan! If I ever find an XCR-30 in […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,43],"tags":[4706,4705,2635,5506,7175],"class_list":["post-33293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-barlow-wadley","tag-barlow-wadley-xcr-30","tag-dan-robinson","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-looming-tower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8EZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17048,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/ebay-find-barlow-wadley-xcr-30-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":33293,"position":0},"title":"eBay Find: Barlow Wadley XCR-30 Receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"January 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Barlow Wadley's show up every now and then on Ebay, but infrequently with the original papers. 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