98 Guy wrote:
No reason
And a radio play that's more than 3 hours long???
why would you even want to do that anyways?

You seem to have an opion about everything regadless of kowledge.

A first raw format before editiong should always be as lossless and high
resolution as possible to minimize artefacts and rounding errors.
Besides many standard tools expect just that format. Seven hours have
been broadcast end to end in a single go by broadcasting stations,
twelve hours split on two consecutive days, four and five hour serials
are frequent and unremarkable.
And why not one file? It declutters the drives and makes stuff much
easier to find. It is not as if I spontaneously decided "let's listen to
episode three of Paul Temple's Genf mystery tonight". I either play it
beginning to conclusion or not at all, don't you? It's not as if file
size were the slightest problem in the final compressed format after the
last edit.

Axel