I enjoyed it too, though I find that it's not quite as gripping as it was in the old days before they started cutting away to the Proms in the Park. Doing that somehow seems to "lose focus".

Even an old reactionary like me has to concede that not all change is bad, though. I think it's only in the last ten years or so that the audience singing "Old Lang Syne" at the end has come in, and I think that works really well.

I don't recall hearing that Benjamin Britten arrangement of the National Anthem before; I thought it was fantastic.