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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.
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Alan Plater
ITV1

Beryl Reid
Sylvia

Robert Longden
Mr Pitt

David Battley
John

Peter Martin
Charlie
Judy Brooke
Judy Brooke
Yvonne
Anthony Molloy
Anthony Molloy
Tony

Maggie Jones
Bella
Christopher Wilkinson
Christopher Wilkinson
Dave
Dave Leslie
Dave Leslie
Man Opposite

Victor Maddern
Sam Bentley

John Alderson
Tracy

Don Fellows
Leo
Peter Carlisle
Peter Carlisle
Harry

Timothy Carlton
Carstairs

Bill Wallis
Pronk