World of Secrets - Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer
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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.
Published on Monday, 13th April 2026.
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