

Dear Daughter
BBC World Service
Extraordinary letters written from parents to their children with Namulanta Kombo. Sharing amazing real-life experiences, parenting advice, family stories and life lessons.
Dear Daughter is an award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service about love, life, family, and raising children. It is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother on a quest to create a ‘handbook to life’ for her daughter, through the advice of parents from all over the world.
Each episode, a guest reads a letter they’ve written to their children (or their future children, or the children they never had) with the advice, life lessons, and personal stories they’d like to pass on.
Expect unbelievable true stories, inspirational advice for parents, and moving accounts of families, relationships and raising children.
Share your letter! What do you want to say to your kids? Or the next generation? Do you have thoughts on motherhood, fatherhood, or parenthood to share? Whether you are a mum or mom, dad or papa, grandparent, uncle, aunt, daughter, son or just want to write a letter, send us a Whatsapp message on +44 800 030 4404 or visit bbcworldservice.com/deardaughter.
You can read our privacy notice here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3ZFHNV8v7qgTm1zbKbkwsvR/dear-daughter-privacy-notice
- 20 episodes
- Updated June 5
Episodes20
June 5 · 21 min
May 29 · 18 minAdoption day
May 22 · 19 minThe world you’ll inherit
May 15 · 21 minMother and son champions
May 8 · 18 minLessons from childhood
May 1 · 20 minDonor conceived
April 24 · 22 minA tractor load of love
April 17 · 21 minA different birth day
April 10 · 18 minA mother of many
April 3 · 18 minReaching milestones
March 27 · 18 minWhat makes a man?
March 20 · 18 minKeeping traditions
March 13 · 23 minSurviving my daughter’s killing
March 6 · 18 minBeing a girl dad
February 27 · 19 minThe gift of life
February 20 · 2 minDear Daughter is back!
Jul 4, 2025 · 25 minLeaving for college
Jun 27, 2025 · 26 minGrieving you
Jun 20, 2025 · 27 minDon’t fear menopause
Jun 13, 2025 · 25 minThe nappy braai