In a series of seven programmes classical scholars and archaeologists examine the light thrown by increased archaeoiogical and linguistic knowledge on the question of how fifth-century Greece developed those features that set it apart from earlier and contemporary civilisations.
2-New Thoughts on the Homeric Epics by T. B. L. Webster
Professor of Greek at University College. London
TheArchaeologyof theDarkAges, by Professor J. M. Cook : Dec. 23

by Muriel Spark
Adapted from her novel by the author
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Caroline Rose , a novelist who has recently undergone a religious conversion, is in a nervous condition. She hears voices dictating a novel to her, and even causing its incidents to happen.

Peter Graeme (oboe)
Frederick Stone (piano) Frederick Grinke (violin)
John Davies (clarinet)
Else Cross (piano)
The Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
(The first three works are recorded) Morris Kahn 's Suite for oboe and piano has three movements, the second of which is an effective scherzetto. lain Hamilton's set of ten Variations
(1951) provides an exacting solo part, revealing the composer's understanding of the technical possibilities of the violin,
The Clarinet Sonata (1956) by William Manias is a work of craftsmanship and logical structure. It has three movements: Allegretto, Lento, Allegrello. Kenneth Leighton's Quartet, though written in the composer's own idiom, reveals a sympathy with the string quartets of Bartok. It has four movements, of which the second is a slow march and the fourth an epilogue.