An opera in three acts
The action takes place in Nuremberg about the middle of the sixteenth century.
Act 1: Inside St. Katherine's Church

by T. W. Hutchison Professor of Economics
In the University of Birmingham
The centenary this year of Thorstein Veblen 's birth provides an opportunity for recalling and reviewing the work of this peculiar American economist, prophet, and ' outsider.'

Act 2: A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs

A reading- of selected poems by Denis Goacher , Marius Goring and Oliver Burt

ACT 3
Scene 1: Sachs's workshop
Scene 2: A meadow by the river Pegnilz

by A. J. Marshall , D.Phil., d.sc.
Reader in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London
2-The Continuous Summer
The speaker considers the mechanisms of 'seasonal' behaviour in animals living In equatorial regions where there are virtually no seasons.