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 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