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Peaky Blinders: First look at Cillian Murphy and co-stars filming season four at the Black Country Living Museum

Filming has begun at the Black Country Living Museum for the upcoming series of hit Birmingham drama Peaky Blinders.

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Cillian Murphy and Charlotte Riley all smiles on set. Pictures by: Tim Thursfield

The cast and crew of the BBC2 show have arrived in the Midlands ready to begin filming for series four.

Shooting began at the end of March in Liverpool and Manchester before moving on to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

Cillian Murphy and Charlotte Riley, wife of Tom Hardy, have been spotted on the set.

Murphy, who plays gangster Thomas Shelby, was seen smiling on set in his signature flat cap and three-piece suit.

Joining him is Charlotte Riley, who plays aristocratic widow May Carleton.

The cast also includes Tom Hardy, Adrien Brody and Game of Thrones star Aiden Gillen.

The museum's canal, rolling mill, stables and blacksmith's forge are set to become the scrap metal yard of Shelby uncle Charlie Strong, played by Ned Dennehy.

Once finished, Birmingham-based screenwriter-director Steven Knight, who created the show, will oversee three months of editing, with the next chapter in the Peaky Blinders story expected to be aired on BBC2 in the autumn.

The most recent series, which was broadcast in May last year, was set two years after the second season in 1924, and followed the gang's attempts to expand internationally.

The new series will take up the story from the police raid in last year's final episode when three of the Shelby family were seen being led off by police.