The Beiderbecke Tapes

Overview

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and 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 Trevor's hands, Trevor and Jill find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

Cast

James Bolam

Trevor Chaplin

Barbara Flynn

Jill Swinburne

Dudley Sutton

Beryl Reid

Don Fellows

Maggie Jones

Malcolm Storry

Robert Longden

Keith Smith