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.
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- 87 episodes
- Updated June 5
Episodes87
- June 5 · 21 min
- May 29 · 18 min
Adoption day
- May 22 · 19 min
The world you’ll inherit
- May 15 · 21 min
Mother and son champions
- May 8 · 18 min
Lessons from childhood
- May 1 · 20 min
Donor conceived
- April 24 · 22 min
A tractor load of love
- April 17 · 21 min
A different birth day
- April 10 · 18 min
A mother of many
- April 3 · 18 min
Reaching milestones
- March 27 · 18 min
What makes a man?
- March 20 · 18 min
Keeping traditions
- March 13 · 23 min
Surviving my daughter’s killing
- March 6 · 18 min
Being a girl dad
- February 27 · 19 min
The gift of life
February 20 · 2 minDear Daughter is back!
- Jul 4, 2025 · 25 min
Leaving for college
- Jun 27, 2025 · 26 min
Grieving you
- Jun 20, 2025 · 27 min
Don’t fear menopause
- Jun 13, 2025 · 25 min
The nappy braai