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Comedy · Drama

The Beiderbecke Tapes

1987 1 season 2 episodes limited series
67 Pulse
8.4 IMDb
One evening 3 hours
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Plot

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.

Credits

Created by: Alan Plater

Cast: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry, Keith Smith, Beryl Reid

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