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Peaky Blinders

TV Show

Steven Knight developed Peaky Blinders, which was directed by Otto Bathurst and produced by Katie Swinden.1)

Writers

Steven Knight, David Leland, Stephen Russell, and Toby Finlay are credited as the writers.2)

Filming Locations

Birmingham, Bradford, Dudley, Leeds, Liverpool, and Port Sunlight were all used as filming locations for the series.3)

Railway Sequences

Using carriages from the Ingrow Museum of Rail Travel, railway sequences were shot between Keighley and Damems (owned by Vintage Carriages Trust and carriages owned by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Trust).4)

Sam Neill's Dialect

Northern Irish actors James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson assisted Sam Neill in perfecting his Northern Irish dialect for the character of C.I. Campbell.5)

Times

Peaky Blinders is a gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England, immediately after World War I.6)

Gang

The plot revolves around the Romani Peaky Blinders gang and its ambitious and violent leader Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy).7)

Chief Inspector Chester Campbell

The gang attracts the attention of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell (Sam Neill), a detective in the Royal Irish Constabulary dispatched from Belfast to rid the city of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), gangs, and common criminals.8)

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill (Andy Nyman in series 1 and Richard McCabe in series 2) charged him with putting down a riot in Birmingham and retrieving a stolen stockpile of munitions destined for Libya.9)

Shelby Family Location

The Shelby family expands its criminal organization throughout the “South and North [of London] while retaining a foothold in their Birmingham base” in the second series, which takes place two years after the first.10)

Derby Day

It began in 1921 and culminates on Derby Day in June 1922 at Epsom Racecourse.11)

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