This is the first of a multipart series with famed electric heretic Ivor Catt - pioneer of digital electronics and formulator of the infamous “Catt question” - an apparent contradiction in the fundamental laws of electromagnetism. Today, Ivor tells us about his first encounter with institutional censorship - a theme that he became increasingly familiar with during his years of arguing the Catt Question both in the literature and through ongoing and regular correspondences with leading academic physicists.