James P. Johnson
An appreciation, with records of the pianist a by Alexis Korner

Introduced by Vernon Mitchell
News Comment: Mark Gibbs
Hymns with a Beat composed by members of the Twentieth Century Church Light Music Group, and sung by the Twentieth Century Singers of St. Barnabas' Church, Gillingham, Kent (director. Reginald Simpson ; organist, Brian Shilling ): a second selection is introduced by the Vicar, the Rev. Donald Mills
Music in Crematoria: Peter A. White , organist of St. Hilda's Church. Darlington, talks of the facilities provided for music at the funeral and memorial services held in crematorium chapels
The last two items are recorded

A series of ten programmes about the ancient Greeks, their history, genius and contribution to European civilisation.
5:TRAGEDY by Hugh Lloyd-Jones , Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
Taking as an example Sophocles' Women of Trachis, which portrays the death of Heracles, this programme discusses Attic tragedy as a dramatic form, and what we learn from it of Greek beliefs about the gods, heroes, and the lives of ordinary men.
Readers Stephen Murray, Susan Richards and Gary Watson
A Listen and Learn series
Further supplies of the BBC booklet published in connection with this series are now being printed, and are expected shortly. Orders may be placed now, by sending a crossed postal order for 5s. to [address removed]Copies will be posted as soon as supplies are available.

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