[JMT1985]

While is different to most of the big players in that respect, it isn't unique. There are a few stations, whether smallscale DAB or online that have presenters presenting from thier homes or remote locations.

It’s not just the small stations. Nation Broadcasting, who have some fairly sizeable FM licences across the country have also done away with studios, and have all presenters broadcasting from home.

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Actually lockdown would have never happened 20 years ago, as the attitude to flu and pandemics was very different then - in 2003 working from home was really not achievable compared to now - and the attitude by governments to pandemics was simply to tough it out - people got sick, that was it. Remember the 2009 swine flu pandemic, we never locked down for that. So I don't see anything on the same scale as we had in 2020 and 2021 happening, broadcasting would have continued as normal.

Swine flu was far less contagious and deadly than Covid, and there wasn’t the likelihood of the NHS becoming totally overwhelmed, so there wasn’t a need for a lockdown then. We didn’t just have lockdowns in Covid because we somehow liked the idea of them more than we did eleven years beforehand.

Was there lock downs in 1918 for the Spanish Flu? What about the Hong Kong Flu of 1968 or the Russian Flu of 1977? I think lock down for the Covid pandemic was the first full lock down, as the world changed into an online world, which could mean work done online, and people had a slightly better time staying indoors, with all the online entertainment etc available. 

Just an opinion - and I know I have veered off course here, sorry - I will go back on course about BBC Radio 2 now, I promise.