Drama ·TV Movie · United Kingdom · 1992 · 30m

Dread Poets' Society

Director

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

Crew

Benjamin Zephaniah — Writer David Stafford — Writer Estelle Daniel — Producer

Synopsis

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!

Key Collaborators

Andy Wilson Director Benjamin Zephaniah Writer David Stafford Writer Estelle Daniel Producer

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