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The Beiderbecke Tapes

Name: The Beiderbecke Tapes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1987-12-13
Rating: 6.778
Cast: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry, Keith Smith

Comedy Drama~90 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

ITV1

Countries

First aired

1987-12-13

Last aired

1987-12-20

Language

Rating

6.8 / 10

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Synopsis and details

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.

Seasons and episodes

Miniseries

2 episodes · 1987-12-13

When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into schoolteacher Trevor Chaplin's hands, he and colleague Jill Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.