Alan Plater’s final chapter of his Beiderbecke trilogy (which was, in turn, based on his 1981 series Get Lost!) saw the return of jazz-loving woodwork master Trevor Chaplin (James Bolam) and radical conservationist English teacher Jill Chapman (Barbara Flynn).
Since their last adventure – in The Beiderbecke Tapes(1987) – Jill and Trevor have had a child, “Firstborn”.
Big Al (Terence Rigby) asks them to put up a refugee friend of his, and they agree. But when Ivan (Patrick Drury) arrives, they find he speaks no English.
They eventually also discover that he has relieved banks of £3 million with nothing but a computer.
There is also a trio of inept policemen, an almost-reformed school tearaway now trying for a career as child-minder, a chance meeting with Jill’s ex-husband Peter (Eamon Boland), and – of course – the music of Bix Beiderbecke.
It’s a very whimsical, Yorkshire comedy by a great Yorkshire writer.
Trevor Chaplin
James Bolam Jill Swinburne
Barbara Flynn Big Al
Terence Rigby Little Norm
Danny Schiller Mr Carter
Dudley Sutton Mr Wheeler
Keith Smith Det. Insp. Hobson
Dominic Jephcott Ben
George Costigan Joe
Sean Scanlan Ivan
Patrick Drury Yvonne Fairweather
Judy Brooke Sharon
Gaynor Kitchen Gary
Darren Bennet Firstborn
Thomas McGlinchey Peter Swinburne
Eamon Boland Charlie
Peter Martin
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