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Benny Green reviews some recent jazz records

A weekly programme of Christian news and comment
Introduced by David Edwards
News Comment: Edward Rogers
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, January 18-25 owes much to the vision of a French Roman Catholic priest, AbM Paul Couturier . Meetings in Britan>niy last summer between Protestants and Roman Catholics during Dinard's ' English season ' are described by the Rev. Alfred Gower Jones ; and preparations for keeping the week m Birmingham this year are discussed by James Barwell , jr., Church of England; Mgr. Francis Davis, Roman Catholic; and the Rev. W. Russell Shearer , Methodist
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A series of ten programmes about the ancient Greeks, their history, genius and contribution to European civilisation.
2: THE GROWTH OF THE CITY-STATE by M. I. FinJey
This programme traces the growth of the independent Polis or city-state from the end of the Dark Age, c. 800 B.C., to the threshold of the classical era, c. 500, and explains its unique significance not only as a political unit but as a whole way of life. Reader, Gary Watson
A Listen and Learn series
M. I. Finley is also the author of a new historical study of the Greeks, specialty written to accompany this series of programmes, and published by the BBC in a 52-page booklet together with a reading list and numerous illustrations in colour and black-and-white. It can be obtained, price 5s., through newsagents and booksellers, or direct by sending a crossed postal order for 5s. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]

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