The quality of life -how do you rate it? Better or worse than it was for earlier generations? Our verdict depends on too many personal variables and the biggest, of course, is age. If you're young you've got nothing to compare the present with. ' I didn't set out to strike a balance. I don't doubt - who could? - that in material things the quality of life of the huge majority has been raised to levels nobody dreamed of half a century ago. But higher material standards don't necessarily mean happier people. If they did, how do you explain today's society.' ROBBIE is Fyfe Robertson
Music by IAN CAMPBELL Producer TOM SAVAGE