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Dread Poets' Society

0.0 30 mins Drama   TV Movie   1992
BBC  
Director(s): Andy Wilson

Release Date: 23 Wed, Sep 1992

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!

Casts of Dread Poets' Society

Timothy Spall

as Derek

Emma Fielding

as Mary Shelley

Alan Cumming

as Shelley

Alex Jennings

as Byron

Dexter Fletcher

as Keats

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