Twenty-seven people - 17 men, seven women, two teenage boys and a girl - lost their lives near Calais on 24 November while trying to reach the UK in a flimsy inflatable boat. They are not the first, and sadly, are unlikely to be the last migrants to die.

On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we are joined by our Middle East Correspondent Alistair Bunkall as we explore the 'push' factors, and Gulwali Passarlay, from Afghanistan, who shares his story of being smuggled to Britain as a child.

Daily podcast team:
Senior podcast producer - Annie Joyce
Podcast producer - Soila Apparicio
Podcast producer - Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer – Alys Bowen
Archive - Simon Windsor
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Music - Steven Wheeler