Going to extremes...
| 09:01 UK time, Wednesday, 1 December 2010
What we care about - education, our kids growing up safe, having a job, somewhere to call home, living long, and being healthy - are things in which we share many common goals and aspirations.
And yet it is these very things which can bring us the most joy and the most anguish. If these basics in life aren't there and aren't secure, then it is these that can affect any of us.
We have been thinking hard about a new series of programmes and features across World Service, World News television and on-line at 91Èȱ¬.News.com.
We are calling it Extreme World: in it, we try to go to the furthest points on the compass when looking at issues of corruption, education, old age, crime, business and religion.
Here's the website
But part of the thought behind it is trying to work out - where do I or you - stand in relation to those on the edge. Does that make us feel better off of worse off? Happy, angry, indifferent or sad?
Tomorrow, World Have Your Say will discuss this issue on TV at 1530 GMT and, as always on the radio, presented by Ros in Freetown, at 1800 GMT.
