The Philips dual-deck radio cassette recorder, model D8478 is the same make and model of tape deck that Ace had with her in Remembrance of the Daleks, before it got exterminated into silicon heaven (where all the dead calculators go).
More commonly referred to as a Ghetto Blaster, it has two tape cassette decks, a radio with FM, MW, LW, and SW frequencies, a graphic equaliser (little levels which go up and down, apparently, and increase or decrease the treble, bass, etc), detachable speakers, and takes a whopping eight quantity D size batteries (no wonder Sophie Aldred complained that it was heavy to carry!). And if it was not heavy enough for you, it had a line-in socket for connecting a separate CD player!
Ah, the days before CD players were commonplace! I remember them well! I have a little saying, which is “You can judge how old a person is by whether they collect vinyl records, or buy vinyl records to listen to!” My generation bought records to listen to, as I am old enough to remember an era before CDs, when all we had were cassette tapes and vinyl records. The youths of today buy records to collect!
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