Desert Island Discs: What happened when Peaky Blinders creator had a beer with Snoop Dogg

Creator Steven Knight told Desert Island Discs the meeting showed him Peaky Blinders is "universal".

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Mr Knight told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs how the rapper talked about his life and family when the two met, and said the show "reminded him of how he got involved in gang culture".

Meeting Snoop Dogg made the creator understand Peaky Blinders "is pretty universal", with people from Eastern Europe to Buenos Aires "getting it and feeling the same thing".

Mr Knight, who based the hit show and a forthcoming film on stories from his parents and his own childhood in Birmingham, also co-created game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?.

Peaky Blinders followed gangsters in 1920s Birmingham. The show ran for six seasons, from 2013 to 2022, and starred Cillian Murphy, who won the best actor Oscar for Oppenheimer this year, as Tommy Shelby.

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