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Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World of Secrets. 

Latest season: 

DNA detectives track down the British soldiers who fathered children in Kenya then disappeared. The mothers and children were left without support. We join the quest for justice. 

Also, previously on World of Secrets: 

The Darkest Web: Two US special agents infiltrate the dark web to rescue children. With access to the elite global team who hunt down people creating and trading in child sexual abuse materials. 

Death in Dubai: A woman falls from a tower block and her name starts trending. But behind the online rumours lies an even darker reality. 

And The Abercrombie Guys: Investigating sexual exploitation claims against the former CEO of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch.

World of Secrets

Why don’t I have a father? Cathy is 10 years old when she starts asking questions. The secret her mum Maggie is forced to reveal changes everything. 

Years later, when lawyers and a geneticist turn up in their hometown in Kenya to take DNA samples, Maggie hopes they can help her finally learn the truth. 

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. 

Presenter: Ivana Davidovic 
Series producer: Josephine Casserly 
Sound design: Tom Brignell 
Executive producer: Matt Willis 
Commissioning senior producers: Katy Davis and Anne Dixey 
Commissioning editor: Jon Manel

Searching for Soldier Dad: 1. Love story

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.

Searching for Soldier Dad: Trailer

The time has come to arrest Alisa’s brother, Staton Grubert. Thirty armed agents commando crawl up a dirt track to his trailer in Texas. Staton has no idea that his time is up. Will Alisa finally get closure? 

And in a state in the South West, Greg is reunited with Lucy, the girl who had been abused for six years. 

This podcast includes some upsetting scenes and discussions of child sexual abuse.

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web is a BBC Eye production for the BBC World Service.

The Darkest Web: 6. My brother, the abuser

Pete and Greg have learnt about a paedophile calling himself “Twinkle”, who runs a website dedicated to sharing images of very young children. 
At first, they have no idea who he is or where he could be, but slowly Twinkle gives himself away. Working with investigators in Brazil and Portugal the agents discover that Twinkle is a young man living in rural Portugal. Greg flies out to assist with the arrest and discovers some very disturbing scenes.
 
This episode talks about child sexual abuse from the very start, and includes some upsetting scenes.

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web is a BBC Eye production for the BBC World Service.

The Darkest Web: 5. Buried hard drives

After they rescue Lucy, Greg and Pete discover the dark web community is even bigger than they thought. There are hundreds of websites each sharing different images of different kinds of child sexual abuse. Overwhelmed by what they have found online and the sheer scale of the problem, Greg makes a decision to go undercover. He will go online on the dark web and talk to the paedophiles directly. They have to do everything they can to try to stop the abusers. 

This podcast includes some upsetting scenes and discussions of child sexual abuse. 

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web: 4. Undercover

US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to find her - and save her. 

They were convinced that Facebook would be able to help them using its facial recognition technology, but the tech giant is unable to help. So they go back to the start, examining every single thing they can see in the room she is being abused in: the sofa, the bed and then finally they wonder what they might discover if they look at the room itself, specifically the exposed brick wall. Is there any way someone could identify these bricks? And could that person help them to find Lucy? 

Season 11 of World of Secrets, The Darkest Web, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service. 

This podcast includes some upsetting scenes, discussions of child sexual abuse, and there’s some strong language. 

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web: 3. The hidden child

US Special Agents Greg and Pete are desperate. Somewhere in America a twelve year old girl, who they have called Lucy, is being sexually abused. Her abuser has been sharing images of his abuse for six years on the dark web. They have to find her - and save her. 

They were convinced that Facebook would be able to help them using its facial recognition technology, but the tech giant is unable to help. So they go back to the start , examining every single thing they can see in the room she is being abused in: the sofa, the bed and then finally they wonder what they might discover if they look at the room itself, specifically the exposed brick wall. Is there any way someone could identify these bricks? And could that person help them to find Lucy? 

Season 11 of World of Secrets, The Darkest Web, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service. 

This podcast includes some upsetting scenes, discussions of child sexual abuse, and there’s some strong language. 

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web: 2. Man with the amazing memory

US Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning work together to track down people who sexually abuse children and share images of their abuse online. They thought they knew what they were dealing with but they’ve just discovered they have no idea. In a prison in Amsterdam they meet a prolific paedophile, Robert Micklesons, who reveals to them the vast online world created by paedophiles to share images and video of child sexual abuse. 
 
When they get back to the US they get an urgent call. A police officer in Denmark has found images of a girl in America who appears to have been sexually abused for six years. But no one has any idea where she is. Their job is to find her. But how will they do it? 

Season 11 of World of Secrets, The Darkest Web, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service. 

This podcast includes some upsetting scenes, discussions of child sexual abuse, and there’s some strong language. 

For further information on the issues raised in the programme, contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support go to bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Reporter and Presenter: Sam Piranty 
Writer and Producer: Annabel Deas 
Script advice: Matt Willis 
Sound design: Neil Churchill 
Composer: Rob Lewis 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Darkest Web: 1. Meeting a monster

Somewhere in America, a twelve year old girl is being abused in her own home. Her abuser is sharing photographs of her with a vast community of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ — an encrypted corner of the internet where users are untraceable. But, hidden amongst the paedophiles, are two men whose job it is to try and find her: US Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning. For more than seven years, BBC Eye journalist Sam Piranty was granted rare access to follow their work, observing the extraordinary lengths they will go to hunt down offenders and rescue children. Every detail matters, and every decision has consequences. They will not look away. The race is on. 

Season 11 of World of Secrets, The Darkest Web, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service.

The Darkest Web: Trailer

After never receiving the money raised in their children’s name, mothers are finally confronting the scammers and demanding answers. 

Now is the time to ask why. Where is the money? 

Season 10 of World of Secrets, The Child Cancer Scam, is a BBC Eye investigation for the BBC World Service. 

Please note, the image is being used for illustrative purposes only and the child depicted is a model. 

World of Secrets will be back with gripping new investigations in 2026.

Reporter and Presenter: Simi Jolaoso 
Additional reporting: Jack Goodman and Ned Davies 
Writer and Producer: Neil McCarthy and Rob Wilson 
Sound design: Andy Fell 
Executive Producer: Rebecca Henschke 
Commissioning Senior Producer: Sarah Green 
Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Child Cancer Scam: 6. The calls

As the value of the Indonesian gold discovery skyrockets, it’s not just everyday investors who want in. Powerful players are drawn into the fight for the gold in Busang. But Bre-X, a small company, has only ever traded as a penny stock. Can it stand up to powerful rivals and play in the big leagues?

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam was first published in May 2024.

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam is made by BBC Scotland Productions for the BBC World Service and CBC 

Presenter: Suzanne Wilton 
Lead Producer: Kate Bissell 
Producers: Anna Miles and Mark Rickards 
Research: Tom Hinckley 
Story consultant: Jack Kibble-White 
Music and Sound design: Hannis Brown 
Additional Sound Design + Audio Mix: Joel Cox 
Executive Editor: Heather Kane-Darling 
CBC Senior Producers: Veronica Simmonds and Willow Smith 
CBC Executive Producers: Chris Oke and Cesil Fernandes 
BBC Commissioning Senior Producer: Anne Dixey 
BBC Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel

The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam: 3. The battle for Busang

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