2. The Beiderbecke Affair

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Our second episode see us enter the lives of Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne, two apparently ordinary teachers from Leeds whose pursuit of some missing records by jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke plunges them into a world of dodgy businessmen, underground economies and police corruption. This Alan Plater-scripted classic from 1985 quickly won the hearts of viewers and spawned two sequels. Next time: Campion