5: Bryan Cresswell Conducts
A series in which Esther Rantzen meets six talented people - all amateurs in their field - who are given a chance to take part in a spectacular professional event. This week BRYAN CRESSWELL , a Civil Servant from Newcastle, conducts the ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA for a concert at the Fairfield Halls. He chooses an exciting overture to conduct, and then meets PROFESSOR JAMES
BLADES, RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT , OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES , YEHUDI MENUHIN and many other experts he has admired, who advise him how to tackle The Big Time.
Film cameramen PETER BARTLETT and NIGEL WALTERS
Film editor ALAN J. CUMNER-PRICE Producer ESTHER RANTZEN Director IAN SHARP