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The Beiderbecke Tapes

The Beiderbecke Tapes

Comedy
Drama
December 13, 1987 – December 20, 1987 (began 39 years ago)
1h 30m / episode
6.8/10
Ended
1 Season
2 Episodes
ITV1

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.