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The Beiderbecke Tapes

IMDb 6.6 1987 • 90 min • ComedyDrama

Director

Alan Plater

Country

GB

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

James Bolam
James Bolam Trevor Chaplin
Barbara Flynn
Barbara Flynn Jill Swinburne
Dudley Sutton
Dudley Sutton Carter
Malcolm Storry
Malcolm Storry Peterson
Keith Smith
Keith Smith Wheeler