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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the writer Stephen Knight.
He's best known as the creator of the hugely successful tv drama Peaky Blinders, a global hit which ran for six series, winning a shelf full of awards and inspiring fans from small, small heath to Hollywood.
He grew up in Birmingham, the youngest of seven siblings, and says his main aim back then was to secure a job that didnt involve getting rained on.
Hes kept himself dry with a surprisingly wide range of film and tv credits.
He co created the game show who wants to be a Millionaire?
And wrote the Oscar nominated screenplay for Dirty Pretty Things.
But it was his decision to sit down and develop the stories his father told him about his own 1920s childhood that spawned his greatest hit.
And now he's a studio mogul.
This year he opened Digbeth Lock, a huge complex in central Birmingham where the first Peaky Blinders film will be shot later this year.
He says being a writer is like being a radio.
Whatever signal you pick up, you just have to broadcast it.
It's not always what you want to write, it's just there.
You just start writing and you never know what's going to happen.
Stephen Knight, welcome to Desert Island Discs.
It's an absolute pleasure and an honour to be here.