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!
Release Date | September 23, 1992 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Dread Poets' Society | |
Runtime | 30min | |
Budget | — | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | English | |
Original Language | English | |
Production Countries | United Kingdom | |
Production Companies | BBC |