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!
- Year: 1992
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: BBC
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- Director: Andy Wilson
- Cast: Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Emma Fielding, Alan Cumming, Alex Jennings, Dexter Fletcher