Michael Palin and Charlie Higson will be among his guests and, on Friday 15 March, he will be joined in the BBC Radio Theatre by a live audience, presenter and actor Adam Buxton and comedian Tim Vine.

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Tim Worstall, a fellow at the Adam Smith Institute, dismissed the quantity of electricity being used for mining as "trivial" on the website Forbes.

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