{"id":60569,"date":"2024-09-07T17:30:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60569"},"modified":"2024-09-07T17:30:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T21:30:43","slug":"guess-the-receiver-shown-in-ssgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/guess-the-receiver-shown-in-ssgb\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Receiver Shown in SSGB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Identify the Radio!<\/h2>\n<p>SS-GB is a British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4939950\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mini-series<\/a> from 2017 in which a British homicide detective investigates a murder in a German-occupied England in a parallel universe where the Nazis won World War II.\u00a0 The show reminds one of the fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1740299\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man in the High Castle<\/a> which ran from 2015 and 2019 and similarly created a world in which Germany and Japan had won WWII.\u00a0 In one scene, the detective, played by British actor Sam Riley, is shown listening to a radio &#8212; which model will surely be immediately recognized by most of us who have been in the SWL hobby for many years . . . see how long it takes for you to win the prize! \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-60573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1558\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB.jpg 1558w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/SS-GB-624x352.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1558px) 100vw, 1558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identify the Radio! SS-GB is a British mini-series from 2017 in which a British homicide detective investigates a murder in a German-occupied England in a parallel universe where the Nazis won World War II.\u00a0 The show reminds one of the fantastic Man in the High Castle which ran from 2015 and 2019 and similarly created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,26,7349,4796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-tv","category-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fKV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6750,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/shortwave-radio-recordings-bbc-world-service-to-the-british-antarctic-survey\/","url_meta":{"origin":60569,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: BBC World Service to the British Antarctic Survey","author":"Thomas","date":"June 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Mentioned earlier today, here is the recording of the BBC World Service's thirty minute broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey. 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