Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary
Wetherell s father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn
Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life
Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orchestras and big bands, and writing television music and song cycles.