The Beiderbecke Tapes
First aired on Dec 13, 1987
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Genres: Comedy, Drama
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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James Bolam | Trevor Chaplin
Barbara Flynn | Jill Swinburne
Dudley Sutton | Carter
Malcolm Storry | Peterson
Keith Smith | Wheeler
Beryl Reid | Sylvia
Featured Crew
Alan Plater | Novel
Michael Glynn | Producer
David Cunliffe | Executive Producer
Frank Ricotti | Original Music Composer
Peter Jackson | Director of Photography
David Aspinall | Editor
