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    Peak Peaky

    Mar 04, 2022 6 minutes
    By Simon Usborne
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    When Shane Milligan picks up the phone, the plasterer from Kent launches straight into an impression of a character he feels he embodies so fully that he sometimes loses sight of himself. “By order of the Peaky Blinders, this place is under new management!” he bellows in guttural Brummie from his home in Gravesend.

    The line comes early on in Peaky Blinders, the Birmingham-set gangster drama that is about to come to conclusion in its sixth series on BBC One and Netflix. In the episode, Arthur Shelby (played by Paul Anderson), the tortured brother of crime boss Tommy (Cillian Murphy), has just violently taken over a London jazz club owned by Italian capo Darby Sabini. The scene, set in 1921 and written by the show’s creator Steven Knight, is classic Peaky. Arthur wears his sharpest tweed three-piece suit, his violent rage only slightly dislodging his tie from its penny collar. His trademark Peaky haircut – shaved back and

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