Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer

About this episode

The episode follows DNA detectives as they search for British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya and disappeared.

DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared, leaving the children and their mothers without support. With access to 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. Episodes released from 20th April. 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
• paternity
• legal investigation
• British soldiers
• Kenya
• family support

Keywords

• DNA detectives
• British soldiers
• Kenya
• paternity
• family support
• legal work
• geneticist

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC

Places: Kenya

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