Screenplay

Screenplay

Release Date:  9/23/1992
Country of Release:  UK
Length:  30 minutes
MPAA: 
Medium:  Video
Genre:  COM
Release Message:  Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train, when by chance, the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a seance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm.
Description:  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 sĀŽance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. AQ battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues! Rastafarian poet Benjamin Zephaniah is on a train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship when he meets Derek, a racist and travelling salesman. The poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley suddenly appear, pushed through time by a freak electrical storm while holding a seance.