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
- 87 episodes
- Updated June 5
Episodes87
- Jun 6, 2025 · 27 min
- May 30, 2025 · 26 min
The sexy novel at Christmas brunch
- May 23, 2025 · 23 min
Bombs overhead
- May 16, 2025 · 27 min
Advice for partying
- May 9, 2025 · 26 min
Divorce is not a dirty word
- May 2, 2025 · 25 min
Prison and parenthood
- Apr 25, 2025 · 28 min
The bra fashion show
- Apr 18, 2025 · 2 min
Coming soon: Season 5
- Apr 11, 2025 · 23 min
Encore: The dating to-do list
- Apr 4, 2025 · 27 min
Encore: Without mum
- Mar 28, 2025 · 26 min
Mama Seebz: Social media fame and dealing with haters
- Mar 21, 2025 · 29 min
Kalki Koechlin: Bollywood and beauty standards
- Mar 14, 2025 · 27 min
Audrey Akande: The Receipts and becoming a ‘girl mum’
- Mar 7, 2025 · 28 min
Dr Rae Wynn-Grant: Surviving bears, jaguars, and motherhood
- Feb 28, 2025 · 27 min
Adjoa Andoh: Bridgerton, bodies, and bizarre pregnancy cravings
- Feb 14, 2025 · 2 min
Dear Daughter: Stars is coming soon!
- Jun 7, 2024 · 25 min
Choosing to be child free
- May 31, 2024 · 27 min
Growing up polygamous
- May 24, 2024 · 28 min
The little girl with trauma
- May 17, 2024 · 24 min
Diagnosed by a stranger, with Ria Lina