The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987.

[1] It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne.

Trevor and Jill are mistakenly given a secret tape recording, which results in their harassment by security forces, their home being invaded, their private lives used to discredit them at school and their being pursued all the way to Amsterdam and Edinburgh.

Eventually the tapes are revealed as just a charade invented by shady government forces as a part of a disinformation campaign.

The adventure unfolds to a soundtrack of jazz music in the style of Bix Beiderbecke performed by Frank Ricotti with Kenny Baker as featured cornet soloist.