Dread Poets' Society

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues!

Country:

United Kingdom

Genre:

Drama,

TV Movie

Duration:

30 minutes

Year:

1992

Director:

Andy Wilson

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Company:

BBC

Cast:

Self

Derek

Mary Shelley

Shelley

Byron

Crew:

Director

Writer

Writer

Producer