A closer look
The most broadcasted face in British history isn't a famous news anchor or a monarch; it’s a random eight-year-old girl playing tic-tac-toe with a creepy clown doll. Carole Hersee was the daughter of a BBC engineer who desperately needed a human subject for 'Test Card F,' a static image used to calibrate color TVs from 1967 onward. That single, oddly menacing photograph aired for an estimated 70,000 hours during station downtime, cementing a bored schoolgirl into the subconscious of an entire nation.
