Im really "liking" Peaky Blinders drama series on BBC ,despite its flaws . It shows early 20th c Birmingham as being ,figuratively as well as literally ,a melting pot . One reason that few of the characters sound like Ozzy Osbourne is that workers came from Ireland ,Wales ,the surrounding English counties ,Italy ,Scotland eastern europe ,the West Indies ,India ,China Language ,especially idioms and accents evolve (in our own time think of how patois has merged with other accents to form the urban "Yout" accent ) The most poignant scenes are the "flashbacks" to a time when miners ,navigators ,sewer workers and others with skills in tunneling were recruited to undermine the enemy trenches in order to blow the best defended parts of the line up before their comrades on the surface would be sent over the top. German miners and tunnelers had been sent to do similar things and to intercept British tunnels .These men faced being blown up in their own tunnels ,or in the case of Tom Shelby in P.B. they faced German tunnelers breaking in to their own tunnel . "A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at either end " No doubt over the coming years there will be more dramas "commemorating " the first world war the Easter uprising and the Russian Revolution i hope they provoke more than comments about "glorifying gangsters" or whether people have got the accents right !
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:29:59 +0000
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