Original Gangsters With Sean Bean International

E1 • Peaky Blinders

Everyone knows the Peaky Blinders of Stephen Knight’s smash hit BBC drama, but far fewer know the reality the series was based on, the real-life men who terrorised Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

43m • 2025

Everyone knows the Peaky Blinders of Stephen Knight’s smash hit BBC drama, but far fewer know the reality the series was based on, the real-life men who terrorised Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

E2 • Al Capone

Al Capone, the man who was, in many ways, the gangster archetype from which all subsequent images and ideas were drawn, the man who defied prohibition to bring booze to a thirsty nation, returns to the spotlight 78 years after his death.

44m • 2025

Al Capone, the man who was, in many ways, the gangster archetype from which all subsequent images and ideas were drawn, the man who defied prohibition to bring booze to a thirsty nation, returns to the spotlight 78 years after his death.

E3 • Stephanie St Clair

Few people remember the name Stephanie St Clair, who once upon a time ruled Harlem’s numbers rackets with an iron fist. Under the guidance of Sean Bean, we’ll hear about how this now-forgotten but once-powerful woman was born in the French Caribbean.

44m • 2025

Few people remember the name Stephanie St Clair, who once upon a time ruled Harlem’s numbers rackets with an iron fist. Under the guidance of Sean Bean, we’ll hear about how this now-forgotten but once-powerful woman was born in the French Caribbean.

E4 • Billy Hill & The Krays

Sean Bean revisits Billy Hill and the Krays, tracing how the twins spent most of their life in jail, while London’s original ‘Gentleman Gangster’ lived out his days as a free man.

44m • 2025

Sean Bean revisits Billy Hill and the Krays, tracing how the twins spent most of their life in jail, while London’s original ‘Gentleman Gangster’ lived out his days as a free man.