 Auden wrote of him that Albert Schweitzer played the organ no better than Walter Greatorex.In July 1949, Greatorex retired to Bournemouth, where he lived in an hotel for a few months until his death in December of the same year.The cold open of BBC television's "Silent Witness" episode "Suffer the Children" uses "Far round the world" with tune "Woodlands", first sung solo by boy treble "Billy" (Jack Finerty), who is then joined by the catholic school choir which mixes to a young gospel choir to provide the only link between the two otherwise separate stories interwoven in this episode.