The Beiderbecke Tapes

Ended

1987

2 Episodes

90 min

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Created by

Alan Plater

Creator

Cast

James Bolam

Trevor Chaplin

Barbara Flynn

Jill Swinburne

Dudley Sutton

Carter

Malcolm Storry

Peterson

Keith Smith

Wheeler

Beryl Reid

Sylvia

Robert Longden

Mr Pitt

David Battley

John

Peter Martin

Charlie

Judy Brooke

Yvonne

Synopsis

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

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