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He was a cheery sod, was Brendan Behan. All you really need to know about The Hostage is that it ends with a gunfight and a corpse rising to sing “The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling”. Which was a British air force song in World War The First, which they’d adapted from a Sally Ann sing-a-long.

Still, I’ve only gone and scanned the programme in as an online flippitybook for your reading edification. It’s here.