Introducing Searching for Soldier Dad
From The Documentary Podcast by BBC World Service
April 22, 2026 · 3 min
About this episode
The episode explores the efforts of DNA detectives to locate British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya and subsequently disappeared.
DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared, leaving the children and their mothers without support. In the latest season of World of Secrets, we access every stage of this cutting-edge process, we follow as a team of lawyers and a leading geneticist travel to Kenya to help locate the British soldiers who fathered children then vanished. We witness the groundbreaking legal and scientific detective work used to find the missing dads. To hear more, search World of Secrets wherever you get your BBC podcasts. Searching for Soldier Dad is a BBC Long Form Audio production for the BBC World Service. Please note, the image being used is for illustrative purposes only and the child depicted is a model.
Topics covered
- DNA detection
- British soldiers
- children support
- Kenya
- legal work
- genetic research
Keywords
- DNA detectives
- British soldiers
- Kenya
- children
- support
- geneticist
- legal work
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: BBC World Service, World of Secrets
Places: Kenya
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