Karl and Emina
A man caught up in the 7/7 terror attacks searches for the stranger who held his hand, and a woman whose family fled war-torn Bosnia looks for the doctor who helped them escape.
Karl, a trainee clinical psychologist, was a passenger on the first carriage of the Picadilly Line London Underground train - one of the four targets of the 7/7 bombings. In the moments after the bomb exploded, Karl was comforted by a woman who was standing close to him and who reached out and held his hand in the dark, smoke-filled carriage as he feared for his life. He has been looking for this mystery woman ever since, and we join his quest to try and track her down as he finally comes to terms with the event that changed his life forever.
Alongside Karl鈥檚 search we meet Emina, an NHS researcher living in Nottingham. Emina and her younger sister Edina were born in Sarajevo. As a baby, Edina was diagnosed with Down syndrome, and shortly afterwards a brutal civil war broke out across Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo came under siege, and in desperate need of medical care and with no safe way to leave the city, Edina鈥檚 doctor fought to place the family on a rare list for immediate medical evacuation. This enabled them to escape the horrors of Sarajevo and begin a new life in Birmingham. Returning to Sarajevo today, Emina is searching for the doctor who helped her family evacuate to safety and gave her sister the chance of a better life.
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'26 people died in my carriage'
Duration: 02:22
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The day we knew we had to evacuate
Duration: 00:44
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Anita Rani |
Director | Toby Trackman |
Producer | Georgia Braham |
Executive Producer | Justine Kershaw |
Actor | Blink Entertainment |
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