Mikey Brett, Craig, Leo, Zem Joaquin and Basil and me.

Basil Jones But actually we're going to start this evolution with a hyena.

AK So in 1981, I persuaded Basil and some friends of mine to form a puppet company.

And we have our own lip balm, and we have a leading brand.

Narrator This is the venue they chose for their fake auditions for an advert for lip balm.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howl for her take balm for her pain, if so she may be healed.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed wail for her take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed wail for her take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt in vain do you use many medicines there is no healing for you.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt in vain do you use many medicines there is no healing for you.

Is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Is there no balm in Gilead is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured.

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt in vain shalt thou use many medicines for thou shalt not be cured.

Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

O mankind! There hath come unto you an exhortation from your Lord, a balm for that which is in the breasts, a guidance and a mercy for believers.

O mankind! There hath come unto you an exhortation from your Lord, a balm for that which is in the breasts, a guidance and a mercy for believers.

After an unconscionably long delay of seven days, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally broke his incomprehensible silence about the rape. But his public statement offered no answers and no balm indeed, nothing but platitudes.

I also wish to express our thanks to the Security Council for its concern at and close follow up of the terrorist crime that took place on 14 February 2005, which resulted in the martyrdom of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, parliament member Basil Fleihan and several others.

In short, when we're thinking like academics, we regard people as elaborate and complicated machines, like computers or cars, but when we revert to being human we behave more like Basil Fawlty, who, we remember, thrashed his car to teach it a lesson when it wouldn't start on gourmet night.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

And they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

And they sat down to eat bread and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

Chile s economy has performed well over the past two years, despite low world copper prices but its annual growth rate is nowhere near that of the previous 25 years. The economic balm applied to old social and cultural wounds is losing its effectiveness.

Their father, Israel, said to them, If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds

Their father, Israel, said to them, If it must be so, then do this. Take from the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry down a present for the man, a little balm, a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds

Personification and the imputing of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans, it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate, like Basil Fawlty with his car or like millions of deluded people with the universe as a whole.

And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds

And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds

Puppets always have to try to be alive, says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment the wonderfully life like Joey, the War Horse, who trots convincingly onto the TED stage.