What's New?
Benny Green reviews some recent jazz records

Among this week's items are:
News Comment: by Mark Gibbs
First Furlough from Bangalore: The Rev. John Jones reveals to Mark Gibbs something of the changed attitude that is called for towards church work by Europeans in the newly independent nations of Asia or Africa
Religion and Health: an account of a conference of ministers and members of the medical profession in the Methodist Church in Ireland
(The last two items are recorded)

7-The Discovery of the East: Art
Speakers: R. H. C. DAVis , Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; JOAN M. Hussey , Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, London; DAVID TALBOT RICE Watson-Gordon Professor of the History of Fine Art, Edinburgh University
In this final programme the speakers describe the special characteristics of Byzantine and Islamic art, consider their influence on the West, and close the series by comparing the effects of the Crusades in this field with their effect on other aspects of medieval history.
A forty-page pamphlet, illustrated in full colour, can be ordered, price 3s. 6d., through newsagents and booksellers, or direct by sending a crossed postal order for 3s. 6d. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]

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