The Real Peaky Blinders

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Carl Chinn reveals the true story of the notorious gangs that roamed Birmingham's streets during the city's industrial heyday.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History Hit.
0:02.8	As you know, I am now in the Antarctic.
0:05.4	We are on a mission to try and find
0:07.5	Shackleton's Lost Shipwreck Injurance.
0:10.7	In the meantime though,
0:11.6	here's a favorite episode from our archive, enjoy.
0:14.5	Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Know's History Hit.
0:16.4	Peaky Blinders, it's Global Phenomenon.
0:18.4	Everyone's favorite TV show,
0:19.7	Stylish, Violent, Troubling.
0:22.2	It's all about the gangs, the thuggery,
0:25.0	the underworld, the illegal gambling of Birmingham.
0:27.4	It's been a bit in London too, at the turn of 19th,
0:30.5	20th century into the 1920s.
0:32.8	The man who knows all about whether
0:35.1	Peaky Blinders is accurate is historian Carl Chin.
0:39.9	I've had lots of people on this podcast.
0:41.6	I've had all sorts of people.
0:42.6	I've had Nobel Prize winners.
0:44.3	I shall have them.
0:45.5	BAFTA winner, it's almost as good.
0:47.7	And I've had best selling authors.
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