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The great leveler?

- Pet News, PetCareAngels.com, undated.

2. Humour is the great leveller – that’s something many politicians certainly believe given how often they try to engage with the public by resorting to comedy and wit.

But it’s risky as anyone who makes a living from comedy will testify.

In “Make ’Em Laugh”, Mandy Baker talks to comedian Marcus Brigstocke about how politicians try to use humour in their speeches.

- Make ’em Laugh, BBC.co.uk, March 21, 2010.

3. When Dr Karen Woo went to Afghanistan it was not only to take her medical expertise to where it was most needed, but also to capture some of the country and its people on film, to show their desperate need for healthcare.

Her video footage shows children in Kabul suffering from the afflictions of war – the lost limbs, disease and malnutrition – and explains in detail why she felt drawn to face the risks of working in a conflict zone.

When the 36-year-old from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, was murdered, in August last year, in a remote area of the country, her fiance Mark “Paddy” Smith saw some of her film for the first time and decided to finish her work. For the past nine months, he has worked on an extraordinary project – a film that Woo began and that he has now completed, with a far different ending than she would have envisaged, but one that, he says, would have won her approval.