Alasdair Lawrance
This was obviously a test paper, because I joined in November 1963, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t go to WN until at least late 1964, or more likely 1965, and I think it was TO20, although I can’t be sure. I don’t remember, (and don’t have a copy of a photograph).
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Chris Woolf
Interesting. More hard engineering in that than I remember for our TO25 course.
I doubt many of us could pass such an exam now! And only about half the questions have any relevance to anything current in broadcasting.
Alasdair Lawrance
It was possible for a reasonably intelligent and interested individual to understand the how of the chain from cyc to CRT.
No more, I fear, and it rarely shows improvements on the screen in my humble opinion. (I exempt flatscreens, drones and smaller cameras from that statement, amongst a few other things!)
Mike Giles
I recall being criticised by John (?) Symons for getting full marks in an exam, because he didn’t like people suggesting that his questions weren’t hard enough – and I feel sure that they were much less demanding than these! That was on TO 21.
Dave Newbitt
On the topic of upsetting lecturers at Evesham. Hope to goodness I’m not repeating a previously told anecdote!
On TO15 during an Alan Woolford lecture I had a bad nose-bleed and had to absent myself for a spell. A day or two later during another of his lectures I blew my nose rather vigorously, prompting the worthy gentleman to council caution lest I induced another nose-bleed.
“Don’t worry” I said “I’m not that bored yet”. He advanced upon me and as menacingly as he was able (he was actually a thoroughly nice chap) said “I have more opportunities than you!”
I think I toned down the repartee after that, but others took up the cause. I remember Sam Wilson on our course (who was possessed of a splendid Irish accent) responding to Woolford’s enquiry as to what part of Ireland he hailed from with “Liverpool”.
