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
Only When I Laugh (TV series) for writer Eric Chappell, and has been repeated on ITV3 since 2007. In a discussion of Eric Chappell's work in "The Guinness Book of Classic British TV", "Only When I Laugh" was described as "intermittently rewarding". Guest appearances have been made by Gwen Taylor, John Quayle (actor), Neil McCarthy, Patrick Troughton, Moira Lister, Pat Ashton, Neil Connery, Pamela Cundell, Brenda Cowling, Reginald Marsh, Rosalind Ayres, Ann Beach, Mary Tamm, Karl Howman, Isla Blair, Ronnie Stevens, Stephen Greif, Diane Bull, Robert Gillespie and Frank Middlemass. 29 episodes were broadcast over four series including a Christmas special. Only When I Laugh (TV