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The Beiderbecke Tapes

Original title: The Beiderbecke Tapes

Year

1987

Rating

★ 6.8/10

Runtime

90 min

Seasons

1

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.

Cast: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry, Keith Smith, Beryl Reid, Robert Longden, David Battley