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!

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Release Date

September 23, 1992

Status

Released

Original Title

Dread Poets' Society

Runtime

30min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

BBC