The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987 · 1 season · 2 eps · ★ 6.8 · Comedy, Drama
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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
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James Bolam Trevor Chaplin -
Barbara Flynn Jill Swinburne -
Dudley Sutton Carter -
Malcolm Storry Peterson - K Keith Smith Wheeler
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Beryl Reid Sylvia -
Robert Longden Mr Pitt -
David Battley John -
Peter Martin Charlie - J Judy Brooke Yvonne
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