Portable radios

A portable radio keeps playing where there's no power socket – at the holiday cottage, in the garden, in the workshop, on a camping trip or during a power cut. Here you'll find portable battery radios as well as radios with a built-in rechargeable battery that you charge via USB. Almost all of them receive FM, and half also pick up DAB+ digital radio. You can choose from small DAB+ radios, retro radios with a carry handle, CD radios and emergency wind-up radios from Denver, Lenco, Thomson, Pure Audio, TELESTAR, Crosley and Madison.

Portable radio with DAB+ or FM?

DAB+ is digital broadcasting: a DAB+ radio tunes in to more stations and plays without hiss, as long as there's a DAB+ signal in your area. Where there's no DAB+ signal, you switch to FM. Portable radios such as the Denver DAB-18, Pure Audio Elan Move, Lenco PDR-034 or Thomson RT400 have both, so you can pick up your station at home and at the cottage. If you want a radio mainly for the house, have a look at all our DAB+ digital radios, including those that only work when plugged in.

Batteries, rechargeable or wind-up?

A radio with replaceable batteries suits places where you have no way to charge it: just keep spares in a drawer. A radio with a rechargeable battery, such as the Pure Audio Elan Move, Lenco PDR-034 or Thomson RT400, charges via USB-C from your phone charger or a power bank. Many models also run on mains power, so at home you plug them into the socket and save the batteries. The Thomson RT280 emergency radio can also be charged with a hand crank or a solar panel, and the Thomson RTS450BT retro radio has a solar panel too.

Which portable radio with a CD player or a retro look?

If you want to listen to your own CDs as well as the radio, choose a CD radio such as the Lenco SCD-24, Denver TC-29, Bigben CD62 or Thomson RK200CD. The Lenco SCD-720 also plays cassettes and receives DAB+. The Crosley Cruiser and Crosley Voyager are shaped like a small suitcase and charge via USB-C. Retro radios with a carry handle, such as the Madison Freesound VR40, look like old transistor radios, and you'll find more among our retro radios.