The Beiderbecke Connection four episodes are titled by incipit, that is, the title is simply the first spoken words heard in each episode. The Beiderbecke Connection The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. Now with a baby in tow, Jill and Trevor are asked by Big Al to look after a refugee called "Ivan". Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English
The Beiderbecke Trilogy the "Beiderbecke" serials. "Get Lost!" aired to respectable ratings – averaging 10.9 million viewers across its run – and Plater soon began work on a sequel. When it transpired than Alun Armstrong would not be available to reprise the role of Neville Keaton, Plater decided that, rather than recasting the role, he would create two new characters and rewrite the scripts. The sequel to "Get Lost!" was reworked by Plater into what was to become "The Beiderbecke Affair". The central characters Plater created for "The Beiderbecke Affair" – Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne – were virtually identical to that of