The Beiderbecke Tapes a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist. The Beiderbecke Tapes 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. Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen
The Beiderbecke Trilogy best known as the producer of the thriller serial "Harry's Game" (1982). "The Beiderbecke Connection" was broadcast in four parts in November and December 1988 and averaged 8.8 million viewers over its run. Frank Ricotti was again nominated and this time won the 1988 BAFTA Award for Original Television Music for "The Beiderbecke Connection". All three series are available as individual DVD releases, as a boxed set, "The Beiderbecke Trilogy", and as a boxed set "Beiderbecke Trilogy 21st Anniversary Edition" (containing "The Beiderbecke Trilogy" plus "Get Lost!", cast interviews, CD soundtrack and collectors booklet), released on Region 2. The stories