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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!
Cast
- Benjamin Zephaniah as Self
- Timothy Spall as Derek
- Emma Fielding as Mary Shelley
- Alan Cumming as Shelley
- Alex Jennings as Byron
- Dexter Fletcher as Keats
Details
- Director
- Andy Wilson
- Released
- September 23, 1992
- Runtime
- 30m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Studio
- BBC
- Status
- Released
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