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Bosnian Edis Kolar guarded a life-saving tunnel built in the basement of his family home during the siege of Sarajevo. The secret passage provided a safe way to move people and supplies in and out of the surrounded city. Edis tells Outlook's Mariana Des Forges how he lived in the tunnel house for the whole war, helping the thousands who crossed through the passage every day. When the war ended Edis turned his home into a museum to honour the ‘Tunnel of Hope’. This interview was first broadcast in 2020.

At his day job as a security officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Egyptian Armia Malak Khalil spends his time guarding precious artworks, including paintings from great masters like Rubens, Caravaggio and Rembrandt. By night Armia works in a studio in New Jersey making his own artworks – sculptures carved out of wood. One day while at work, Armia thought he was having a conversation with just another museum visitor but this chat would catapult him to an opportunity he could only dream of.

Aparecida Vilaça is a Brazilian anthropologist who spent years in the Amazon recording the stories of Brazil’s indigenous Wari’ people. Many of them were told by the elderly storyteller, Paletó. Aparecida’s original recordings of Paletó were held in Rio de Janeiro in the Indigenous Language collection at the National Museum but were destroyed when the museum burned down in 2018. And Brazilian Beatriz Hörmanseder is a paleontologist who lost all her work in the fire but came up with a unique way to cope with the trauma of that loss. She got a tattoo of the building's facade and set up a project where other students and staff could do the same. Outlook's Maryam Maruf reports. This interview was first broadcast in 2019.

Presenter: India Rakusen
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