Cillian Murphy on new television series Peaky Blinders

Cillian Murphy on new television series Peaky Blinders
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Cillian Murphy, star of new BBC period drama Peaky Blinders, talks to Gwilym Mumford about the series, and why he felt he had to play the lead role of Tommy Shelby. The drama is set in 1919 and focuses on a family gang in industrial Birmingham. Creator Steven Knight gives an insight into where the better-than-fiction material came from