[Radio_man]

I agree that broadcasting a sentencing from the Old Bailey for over 30 minutes is hardly news worthy to World viewers, or even UK viewers.

It's a very odd choice editorially, particularly to go for over half-an-hour for a not particularly high-profile case. Really the kind of thing that'd be better edited down to a few key moments - I can't imagine many viewers stuck with it beyond a few minutes. If BBC Parliament wasn't such a reduced entity, it'd be really the kind of thing that belonged on there.

It felt like the NC team had run out of reports for the rest of the hour, so just stuck on a niche hearing from the Old Bailey and went for a coffee break. A very strange choice during a World simulcast hour as well.