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The Beiderbecke Tapes

1987 · Alan Plater · 1 season

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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.

James BolamTrevor ChaplinBarbara FlynnJill SwinburneDudley SuttonCarterMalcolm StorryPetersonKKeith SmithWheelerBeryl ReidSylviaRobert LongdenMr PittDavid BattleyJohnPeter MartinCharlieJJudy BrookeYvonne

Cast

James BolamTrevor ChaplinBarbara FlynnJill SwinburneDudley SuttonCarterMalcolm StorryPetersonKKeith SmithWheelerBeryl ReidSylviaRobert LongdenMr PittDavid BattleyJohnPeter MartinCharlieJJudy BrookeYvonne

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