It happened when the 1979 hit was played on Radio 2’s news broadcast at 5pm on Sunday.

A “technical malfunction” was blamed after it was played in the background as IDF spokesman Peter Lerner slammed Iran’s missile blitz.

Afterwards, one listener complained: “Is this amateur hour on the BBC?”

Another told The Sun newspaper: “I just thought, ‘Wow, someone must be having a wind-up here’. I was gobsmacked, I couldn’t believe they could have played that.

“Surely, at a time when everyone is fearing World War Three, we didn’t need to hear that.”

A BBC spokesman said: “It was played by mistake and we apologise for the error.”

BBC’s coverage of the war in Gaza has definitely not been chart-topping.

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