Getting back to normal

Imagine life without your home, kitchen, garden...

We take an Israeli woman and a woman from Washington DC, and ask them to compare their lives in the week we were told by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon: "nothing will be the same again".

How can people live with such an intense level of security and in a hermetically-sealed existence?

The people of Israel have had to live "normal lives" for many years and now the Americans are facing up to the same potential level of security. Will things ever "be the same again"?

Also on Broadcasting House this weekend, the story of an ordinary Afghan.

Our reporter Ian Pannell is in the northern Afghanistan, where he has been meeting refugees who have fled Kabul. What are the things they are really missing?

The answer is the day-to-day: their gardens, their possessions, and the simple ordinary things of everyday life. The prosaic but credible things that people miss in their lives.