The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987)

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two schoolteachers end up with a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste. National security agents chase after them.

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What happens

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and 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 Trevor's hands, Trevor and Jill find themselves being pursued by national security agents. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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