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The Beiderbecke Tapes

1987Ended1 seasons2 episodes6.8(9)
ComedyDrama

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.

Creator: Alan Plater

Last aired: Dec 20, 1987

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