It\u2019s therefore unsurprising that, with Knight\u2019s new drama This Town<\/a> airing this Sunday (31st March), fans of the Cillian Murphy-starring show are wondering how this new series will compare \u2013 and one of its stars, Ben Rose, has now explained.<\/p>\n Speaking exclusively with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Rose laid out the similarities between the two series, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s just the writing. Steven Knight, the writer, he has a really incredible sort of voice, I think, and he\u2019s able to create really grounded, naturalistic characters who all speak in poetry, and all have a heightened sense of reality within this<\/span> really gritty, very earthly world.<\/p>\n \u201cHis language is sort of otherworldly. And the way Peaky uses contemporary popular music to contrast with the era, our show kind of has the opposite, because it\u2019s using music of the time, of the era, to make you feel even more immersed in that world.\u201d<\/p>\n Like Peaky Blinders, This Town<\/a> is set in Birmingham and the Midlands and encompasses thriller aspects \u2013 but, unlike that show, it takes place in the 1980s, charting the lives of a family and those surrounding them during the era of ska and 2 tone music.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, Knight explained the ways in which this era of music is central to the show, saying: \u201cIf you\u2019re doing period television, then ask what was actually happening then.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember, in Birmingham, you\u2019d go into a pub and be looking around for a plastic bag that might have been left; it was all a bit edgy.<\/p>\n \u201cMy sister was there on the night of the Birmingham pub bombings [in 1974]. There were no mobile phones then, and we were all sitting at home wondering if she was caught up in it. It was just part of life.<\/p> \u201cEqually, you\u2019d go into a pub and the collecting tin [for the IRA] would go round and the Irish music was there. That\u2019s the other thing \u2013 the music is so central to that struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Bardon](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/03\/This-Town-BBC-e967714.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"This")
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