Aug 6, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
What’s been happening in our investigation since the last episode? Tristan Redman talks to season host Ivana Davidovic and lawyer James Netto for the latest on Cathy, Peter and Yvonne, the Kenyans who…
This is the remarkable story of a groundbreaking legal and genetic process to find the missing fathers of children living near a British Army training base in Kenya.
These children, many of them now adults, say that their fathers were soldiers stationed at the base before they disappeared.
The curiosity of who is my father?
Yeah, it's-
I can't.
It's in DNA, literally.
I can't escape it, 'cause-
... something in me is like, "Get to know him."
You know? Know your roots.
Know everything.
And then there's some part of me which is like, "He doesn't care.
He was never here for you."
For about a year and a half, the BBC journalist Ivana Davidovic followed the lawyers as they attempted to identify the missing men.
We will try as hard as we can.
We will use every tool we can.
We will go to court as much as we can, but there is no guarantee we will ever find the father or the fathers involved in these cases.
It's a powerful series that follows three main stories, Cathy and her mom, Maggie, Yvonne, who grew up thinking she was an orphan, and Peter, who yearns for his father and desperately wants to be the father to his own son that he never had growing up.
I found my dad.
I feel like I have someone.
This is the remarkable story of a groundbreaking legal and genetic process to find the missing fathers of children living near a British Army training base in Kenya.
These children, many of them now adults, say that their fathers were soldiers stationed at the base before they disappeared.
The curiosity of who is my father?
Yeah, it's-
I can't.
It's in DNA, literally.
I can't escape it, 'cause-
... something in me is like, "Get to know him."
You know? Know your roots.
Know everything.
And then there's some part of me which is like, "He doesn't care.
He was never here for you."
For about a year and a half, the BBC journalist Ivana Davidovic followed the lawyers as they attempted to identify the missing men.
We will try as hard as we can.
We will use every tool we can.
We will go to court as much as we can, but there is no guarantee we will ever find the father or the fathers involved in these cases.
It's a powerful series that follows three main stories, Cathy and her mom, Maggie, Yvonne, who grew up thinking she was an orphan, and Peter, who yearns for his father and desperately wants to be the father to his own son that he never had growing up.
I found my dad.
I feel like I have someone.
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Family steps in when a father refuses
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Military ties now hinge on legal accountability
Not One Father Responded
No father agrees to support his child
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