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Whilst many businesses suffer as a result of coronavirus, gaming is bucking the trend. Miles Jacobson is from Sports Interactive, the firm behind the Football Manager series of video games, and tells us why they recently decided to give the game away free for a limited period in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. We find out how all the additional gamers are impacting on internet bandwidth from Kyle Orland of the website Ars Technica. And Andy Robertson, who wrote the guide Taming Gaming, discusses how parents should best manage their children's expectations about gaming over the coming weeks, whilst schools in many parts of the world are suspended. Also in the programme, the price of oil has collapsed to a 17 year low. Ellen Wald of the Atlantic Council in Washington DC explains the impact on United States oil production. And we hear how Russia will manage with such low prices from Tom Adshead, director of Macro Advisory in Moscow. Plus as people all over the world find themselves isolating at home, we find out more about what that experience is like from Beth Healey, a British medical doctor who spent a year in a remote research station in Antarctica.