As a possessor of a Birmingham accent myself, it was a relief - but Peaky Blinders' cadences were not always so well received. My Facebook feed, made up largely of West Midlanders, was telling. "Why do some of them sound Liverpudlian?" asked one friend. "Love it - but why are they speaking like that?" wrote another.

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