The Beiderbecke Tapes
- TV comedy drama
- ITV1
- 1987
- 2 episodes (1 series)
Sequel to The Beiderbecke Affair in which unlikely detectives Trevor and Jill are led on a chase to Amsterdam and Edinburgh when they discover a plan to dump nuclear waste in the Yorkshire countryside. Stars James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry, Keith Smith and more.
Press clippings
James Bolam has a wonderful gift for looking dilapidated. His seediness would make a pomegranate peeved. As Alan Plater put it in The Beiderbecke Tapes: "He's scruffy, he's round-shouldered, he walks badly and he needs a haircut". I have always been sorry I missed Bolam's Macbeth. The ravelled sleeve of care, the fraying kilt, the Oxfam sporran.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 21st December 1987