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Benny Green reviews some recent jazz records
A weekly programme of Christian news and comment
Introduced by Walter Macdonald
News Comment: Mark Gibba
Women's World Day of Prayer: The growth and significance of this observance, which falls on Friday of this week, is discussed by Mrs. Glyn Simon and Mrs. J. T. Morgan , President of the National Free Church Women's Council
Hungry and you gave me no meat: The Rev. Douglas Webster of the Church Missionary Society looks back on three months spent in India last year
Lent Books: Mildred Rawlinson reviews books specially published for reading by Church people this Lent
A series of ten programmes about the ancient Greeks, their history, genius and contribution to European civilisation.
6: SCIENCE by G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven
The Greeks were the first to seek a rational explanation of the universe; their scientific thought was wide-ranging and often brilliant, though too rarely checked by experiment—and for this reason their achievement was not a lasting one.
A Listen and Learn series
The 52-page booklet published by the BBC to accompany these programmes can be obtained by sending a crossed postal order for 5s. to [address removed]With the booklet will be enclosed details of weekend courses on the Greeks now being arranged by residential colleges in Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and Northampton-shire. Listeners who already have the booklet and who would like details of these courses should send a stamped addressed envelope to The Greeks, Follow-Up Courses, at the same address.
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