The Beiderbecke Tapes

Overview

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.

Created by Alan Plater

Network

• ITV1

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  James Bolam

  Trevor Chaplin

  2 eps

• 

  Barbara Flynn

  Jill Swinburne

  2 eps

• 

  Dudley Sutton

  Carter

  2 eps

• 

  Malcolm Storry

  Peterson

  2 eps

Themes

• jazz
• secret society
• miniseries
• schoolteacher
• leeds

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