Mark notices a Yaesu FRG-8800 on “Death in Paradise”

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:

I noticed recently in an episode of the BBC series, "Death in Paradise", a Yaesu FRG-8800 sat on a book case.

[The screenshot is] from Season 4, Episode 1 "Stab in the Dark", with the radio off DS Camille Bordey's right shoulder. [See image above-click to enlarge]

The Yaesu FRG-8800 (Source: Universal Radio)

So far, it has never been used. As the show is set on a fictitious Caribbean island, perhaps the props people figured a radio like that might be part of a busy island police station where seemingly someone dies every week.

I wonder what other shows people have noticed amateur radio gear in (Season 2 of 24 comes to mind, when Kim Bauer is taken in by a survivalist).

Thank you, Mark. I like how the FRG-8800 is just sitting there on the shelf-doesn't look like it's connected to anything.

Only recently, I noted a classic shortwave receiver in the trailer of a film. I think I captured it and made a note, but forgot to post. I'll see if I can find it and post. Hopefully, seeing the image will jog my memory!