The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987)

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.

The Beiderbecke Tapes

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as Trevor Chaplin

as Jill Swinburne

Christopher Wilkinson

Christopher Wilkinson

as Man Opposite

Timothy Carlton

Timothy Carlton

Marlous Fluitsma

Marlous Fluitsma

as Man at Funeral

as Grey Guardian

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