The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987•PG•1 Seasons•2 Episodes•6.8•Ended
ComedyDrama
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.
Creator
Alan Plater
Network
ITV1
Origin
GB
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
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