How Real History Shaped Peaky Blinders: Cillian Murphy & Steven Knight

Edith and Packy dig into the realities of life in Birmingham between the wars. Cillian talks about how that industrial city is almost its own character, the ways in which it would have influenced Tommy's ambitions, and the challenge of mastering a Birmingham accent. Steven Knight describes the way his own family stories mythologized Small Heath, informing the show’s characters, events, and even its dialogue. Then historian Andrew Davies looks at what it was really like in the 1920s: limited social mobility, the racecourse wars, and how Hollywood gangster movies influenced UK sartorial style. Watch ⁠Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man⁠, on Netflix starting March 20th.