[Jon]

The BBC concerts were live before COVID weren’t they?

They also used to have a presenter linking it all together

Now it’s just 3 completely disconnected parts

Recording the concert was one of those things brought in just for the Covid period that has now become normal, like cutting the length of Children in Need

COVID was clearly just an excuse. If that was the real reason for shortening CIN, 2022's should've been back to normal! They actually just wanted to cut the runtime and used the COVID excuse to avoid negative publicity.

Or maybe they decided both things worked better or just as well that way having after having to try them out due to Covid.