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Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer

4/13/20263 min

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.

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Clips

Finding Out He’s Alive
Mom’s Lie, Truth Unfolds
Dreams And Village Ridicule
Identity Through DNA And Law
The Possible Match Reveal

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 00:00

    This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  2. Speaker 10:03

    [gentle music] Chicago, 2011, a cop is murdered. Police and prosecutors swear they have the trigger man. He swears he didn't do it. How far will each side go to prove they're right?

  3. Speaker 20:18

    Like, it's just one bombshell after another. You know where you're like, "I... What? What?"

  4. Speaker 10:23

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  5. Ivana Davidovic· Host0:34

    [gentle music] Cathy grows up barely knowing anything about her father.

  6. Cathy· Guest0:43

    I've never really had, like, a dad, so to know what that feeling is to actually miss, you can't miss something that you've never had.

  7. Ivana Davidovic· Host0:51

    Sometimes she's bullied at school in Kenya. Being mixed race, her skin is lighter. Her hair is a different texture. Her mom, Maggie, tells Cathy her dad was a soldier and had been deployed to Afghanistan.

  8. Maggie· Guest1:06

    You know, she's young to understand. What could I have told her? I just told her, "I think he's dead."

  9. Ivana Davidovic· Host1:11

    But after searching Facebook late into the night, Cathy learns the truth, well, part of it, and discovers her father is alive.

  10. Cathy· Guest1:21

    So I start scrolling and scrolling, and then all of a sudden I see someone with the same name as me.

  11. Ivana Davidovic· Host1:27

    And he was a soldier

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