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The Beiderbecke Tapes

Genres
Comedy
Drama
Rating
6.8
Status
Ended
First Air Date1987-12-13
Last Air Date1987-12-20
Seasons1
Episodes2
Episode Runtime90 min
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited Kingdom

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.

Keywords
jazz
secret society
miniseries
schoolteacher
leeds

Seasons

poster
S1

Miniseries

2 Episodes

1987

Cast & Crew

poster

James Bolam

as Trevor Chaplin

poster

Barbara Flynn

as Jill Swinburne

poster

Dudley Sutton

as Carter

poster

Malcolm Storry

as Peterson

poster

Keith Smith

as Wheeler

poster

Beryl Reid

as Sylvia

poster

Robert Longden

as Mr Pitt

poster

David Battley

as John

poster

Peter Martin

as Charlie

poster

Judy Brooke

as Yvonne

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