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Sep 2019
27m 57s

Who Wants to Be a Peaky Blinder?

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Steven Knight is best known as the creator of Peaky Blinders, the BBC gangster drama. But his career hits also include Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - one of the world’s most successful game shows - and an Oscar nomination for Dirty Pretty Things.

He tells Jim Waterson about his new show for Apple TV+, plans for a film studio in Birmingham and why Snoop Dogg loves Peaky Blinders.

Producer: Richard Hooper

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