T. Dan Smith - in Popular Culture

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Smith's story was also the inspiration for Austin Donohue, a character in Peter Flannery's play, Our Friends in the North. The part was first played by Jim Broadbent in the Royal Shakespeare Company production, and then by Alun Armstrong in the 1996 BBC television drama version.

He was also the subject of "Dan the Plan", a song written by Lindisfarne's Alan Hull, which appeared on his 1975 solo album Squire.

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