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Now that event – and the wider story of the town's fate – has been turned into a play, Port Talbot Gotta Banksy, based entirely on transcripts of the townsfolk's response.

Many of the townsfolk don’t make it, and their slaughter is but a prelude to Joel surrendering to the slow death Abby promises in the second season premiere.

Murky and misty streets, coughing townsfolk, and the distant toll of a plague doctor's bell all feature in Hogne's most-watched video, which has racked up 53 million views.

In Canterbury, the mayor swaggered around the public square pressuring townsfolk to open their businesses, drawing an angry crowd of onlookers.

But if you call townsfolk low-down, they won’t take it as an insult.