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The Girl Who Stared at Britain for Thirty Years (And Nobody Knew Her Name)

She wasn’t famous. She wasn’t an actress. She was eight years old when her father photographed her for a technical calibration image. And for the next thirty years, her face appeared on British television screens for more than seventy thousand hours — making her possibly the most broadcast person in television history. This is the story of Carole Hersee and Test Card F. You’ll discover why BBC engineers needed a human face to calibrate colour television, how a stuffed clown called Bubbles became a national icon, and what happened to the girl who watched Britain from inside their television sets. From the dawn of colour broadcasting in nineteen sixty-seven to the digital age that made test cards obsolete, this is a uniquely British story of accidental fame. This isn’t just television history. It’s the story of a photograph that became part of British childhood — and the ordinary woman who lived her whole life behind that famous face.