TV Series

The Beiderbecke Tapes

Name: The Beiderbecke Tapes
Released: 1987-12-13
Rating: 6.6
Cast: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry, Keith Smith

Dec 13, 1987 · 1 Season · 2 Episodes · 90m / ep · Comedy, Drama

⭐ 6.6/ 10

Created by Alan Plater

Status: Ended

Overview

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.