Just a FYI, the fella in question is a pukka welsh opera singer called Wynn Evans. Who has clearly sold his soul to the advertising devil!! I can't bear the adverts either.
Stornos in the late 80's early 90's then the 'miracle' of the Pye set. The Motorola theoretically secure radios came late 90's, at least to where I was stationed.
We used white '37 patt belts with the rear buckles cut off. Rest of brass highly polished. Belts painted white and white plastic courlene lanyards at RAF Northolt in the early to mid 1990s