Commonwealth Games 2022 opening ceremony: 'It's Birmingham's turn to shine'

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Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, one of the masterminds behind the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Birmingham , think it will be better than the launch of the London Olympics a decade ago.

If organizers' predictions are to be believed, 1 .5 billion pairs of eyes will be watching Birmingham on Thursday when the Commonwealth Games officially begin with an elaborate three and a half hour ceremony.

"No pressure at all “, laughs Steven Knight, executive producer of the event.

But Knight is used to a large audience. He is the man behind the TV series Peaky Blinders, Birmingham's biggest cultural export in recent years.

He has long been a proud ambassador for his city native and knows this world attention is a golden opportunity to fully highlight its past achievements and modern identity.

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< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">"Many of the opening ceremonies are visually spectacular but emotionally quite coy , I think," Knight says. "But this one is very moving.

"It has a story to tell. These are the people of Birmingham. So this is the story of what the city has achieved, and how it has achieved it by the people who are here.

"Looks like it's Birmingham's turn to shine - and T...