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The Media Show: Who Wants to Be a Peaky Blinder?

25/09/2019

Who Wants to Be a Peaky Blinder?

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, Who Wants to Be a Peaky Blinder?

From hit game shows to gangster drama, Steven Knight on his extraordinary career.

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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