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BBC drama is hailed as 2025's answer to Peaky Blinders and Killing Eve
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground is a slim, pacy non-fiction volume by journalist/ academic Marek Kohn, published in 1992.
Co-written by award-winning dramatist Polly Stenham, commissioned to fill a perceived Killing Eve/Peaky Blinders-shaped hole in the Beeb's schedules, the answer (presumably) is that the subject matter lent itself to some trendy kick-ass TV: Drugs gangs run by women! Exploring a 'forgotten' post-WWI period in which drug-taking was rampant and the ensuing moral/legal panic defined a view of drugs that largely persists to this day, Dope Girls tells the 'true' story of single mother Kate (Mare Of Easttown's Julianne Nicholson), who built an empire of illicit nightspots and was dubbed 'the most dangerous woman in London'. Co-written by award-winning dramatist Polly Stenham, commissioned to fill a perceived Killing Eve /Peaky Blinders-shaped hole in the Beeb's schedules, the answer (presumably) is that the subject matter lent itself to some trendy kick-ass TV
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