The Beiderbecke Trilogy The Beiderbecke Trilogy The Beiderbecke Trilogy refers to three television serials written by Alan Plater and made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom between 1984 and 1988. Each serial centres on schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) who work at a rundown comprehensive school in Leeds. Woodwork teacher Trevor enjoys football and jazz music while English teacher Jill is a political activist concerned with saving the environment. "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" centres on two schoolteachers – Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and Jill Swinburne (Barbara Flynn) – who teach at a comprehensive school
The Beiderbecke Affair the US on 29 September 2009. There are four books associated with the series. Alan Plater's first-ever book was a novelisation of "The Beiderbecke Affair" (Methuen, 1985) and then he originally wrote "The Beiderbecke Tapes" as a novel (Methuen, 1986) before dramatising it for ITV. Four years after the final serial aired, he novelised "The Beiderbecke Connection scripts" (Methuen, 1992). An omnibus edition "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" was released by Methuen in 1993. In 2012, the British Film Institute published a book about the series in its range examining key television shows: "BFI TV Classics: The Beiderbecke Affair" by William Gallagher