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
- May 10, 2024 · 27 min
- May 3, 2024 · 27 min
Blending families
- Apr 26, 2024 · 26 min
A public apology from a besotted mother
- Apr 19, 2024 · 27 min
It’s just hair, with Joy Kendi
- Apr 12, 2024 · 22 min
Moving on
- Apr 5, 2024 · 22 min
The dating to-do list
- Mar 29, 2024 · 28 min
The people-making business with Janine Harouni
- Mar 22, 2024 · 24 min
The perfect trap
- Mar 15, 2024 · 29 min
Making amends
- Mar 8, 2024 · 25 min
Being Superwoman
- Mar 1, 2024 · 29 min
Elbows out with Nadiya Hussain
- Feb 22, 2024 · 2 min
Coming soon: Season 3
- Nov 9, 2023 · 50 min
Bonus: The Documentary
- Jun 18, 2023 · 28 min
Holding on to love: Dear Daughter live
- Jun 11, 2023 · 27 min
Finding love: Dear Daughter live in Nairobi
- Jun 4, 2023 · 27 min
Dear son
- May 28, 2023 · 22 min
You are wanted
- May 21, 2023 · 23 min
Trying to conceive
- May 14, 2023 · 20 min
Keep growing, always change
- May 7, 2023 · 24 min
On apples and trees