Search for the hero
Anita Rani helps people track down the strangers who saved their lives
WITH emotionally charged interviews, this powerful series tells the stories of ordinary people caught up in the biggest events in living memory.
Each of them received an act of exceptional humanity from someone that had a profound effect on their lives.
Anita Rani meets these people who were ‘saved by a stranger’, all of whom are hoping to be reunited with the person who saved them.
Trainee clinical psychologist Karl recounts the ordeal of being a Tube passenger one of the trains targeted by the 7/7 London bombings in 2005.
“I was on the same carriage where one of the bombs was detonated,” he says.
“A lady held my hand while we were stuck in the carriage and for the last 15 years I’ve been trying to find her.”
In the moments after the bomb exploded, Karl tells how the mystery woman reached out to him in the pitch black, smoke-filled carriage as he feared he would die.
In another search, Anita meets Emina, an NHS researcher living in Nottingham.
Emina and her younger sister Edina, who has Down’s Syndrome, were born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, which came under siege during the civil war in the 90s.
In desperate need of medical care and with no safe way to leave the city, Edina’s doctor fought to place the family on a list for immediate medical evacuation, enabling them to escape Sarajevo and begin a new life in Birmingham.
Emina says: “It would probably be one of the most powerful moments in my life to meet the person that I credit our survival to.”