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
- Apr 30, 2023 · 21 min
- Apr 23, 2023 · 22 min
Generation gap
- Apr 16, 2023 · 26 min
Without mum
- Apr 9, 2023 · 27 min
Grandma’s gift
- Apr 2, 2023 · 23 min
Spend some, save some
- Mar 26, 2023 · 24 min
I’m not fine
- Mar 20, 2023 · 26 min
Kindness: My superpower
- Mar 13, 2023 · 25 min
Kids? No pressure
- Mar 6, 2023 · 27 min
Healing letters
- Feb 27, 2023 · 27 min
Your dad, my dad
- Feb 14, 2023 · 3 min
Coming soon: Season 2
- Mar 21, 2022 · 22 min
Growing pains
- Mar 14, 2022 · 25 min
I left for you
- Mar 7, 2022 · 23 min
Birds and bees
- Feb 28, 2022 · 30 min
Empty arms
- Feb 21, 2022 · 26 min
The confidence of a cockroach
- Feb 14, 2022 · 23 min
Fly bird, fly
- Feb 7, 2022 · 23 min
Seize the day
- Jan 31, 2022 · 24 min
Faith in you
- Jan 24, 2022 · 23 min
Perfect match