Steven Knight has talked about growing up in Birmingham, his start in film making and even Snoop Doggs admiration of him in a recent Desert Islands Disc interview. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show, Desert Island Discs , to talk about his youth growing up in Birmingham, his start in the film industry and all the people he has met along the way. During the interview, Mr Knight told Desert Island Discs presenter Lauren Laverne, about how he had met rapper Snoop Dogg, who showed his admiration for the show, saying how it had 'reminded him of how he got involved into gang culture.
' Mr Knight said that meeting the rapper helped him to understand that Peaky Blinders is 'pretty universal', with people all over the world tuning in to watch it every week. 'These are people living big dramatic lives' Talking about the development of the show, Mr Knight said: "I was told stories by my mom and dad of things they experienced when they were kids, so they were kids looking at this world. "Then I'm a kid they're telling me stories, so it was double mythologised.
Most things about working-class people are like 'Aren't they hilarious' or 'That's such a shame' but it's not like that. "That perspective is so reductive. I used to go shoeing horses in the gypsy's scrap metal yard, the people we would meet were so larger than life, so rebellious, so the other side of the law, but really warm and .