The Beiderbecke Affair We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only... (Season 1, Episode 6)
TV Episode | Comedy, Drama, Music

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The Beiderbecke Affair

We Are on the Brink of a New Era, If Only... (Season 1, Episode 6)

TV Episode | Comedy, Drama, Music

The election comes, and goes. More clandestine meetings. Files are exchanged. Houses are raided. A Forest is cut down to size. A pool-side meeting with the brothers

Director

David Reynolds

Writer

Alan Plater (novel) (screenplay)

Producer

Anne W. Gibbons

Composer

Frank Ricotti

Cinematographer

Peter Jackson (lighting cameraman)

Editor

David Aspinall

Casting Directors

Ruth Boyle | Malcolm Drury

Production Designer

Mike Long

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Updated Feb 10, 1985

Release date

Feb 10, 1985 (United Kingdom)

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