Introducing Searching for Soldier Dad

介绍《寻找士兵爸爸》

The Documentary Podcast

2026-04-22

3 分钟
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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. 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.
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  • Kathy grows up barely knowing anything about her father.

  • 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.

  • 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 Kathy her dad was a soldier and had been deployed to Afghanistan.

  • You know, she's young to understand what could I have told her.

  • I just told her, I think he's dead.

  • But after searching Facebook late into the night, Cathy learns the truth.

  • Well, part of it, and discovers her father is alive.

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