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Dear Daughter
Your letters to your daughters. What do you want them to know? What do they need to know? With Namulanta Kombo, winner of the BBC’s International Podcast Competition 2021.
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Listen to Dear Daughter, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 82 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 82 episodesA tractor load of love
How far would you go to help your child achieve their dreams? Corne drove the family tractor across South Africa to raise money so her daugh...
A different birth day
Lejla was born as a result of sexual violence during the Bosnian war. Adopted as a baby, she grew up in the UK. In this episode, she shares...
A mother of many
Anita from Singapore is a mother whose first fostering experience didn’t go to plan, but she was encouraged to try again. Twenty-three years...
Reaching milestones
Bella is originally from the UK but now lives in Dubai, where she is raising her daughter who was born with global developmental delay. She...
What makes a man?
Did you ever look at your life and think you’d never end up here, raising children you once couldn’t imagine having? Namulanta Kombo catches...
Keeping traditions
Tamaki talks about her daughter’s Seijin no Hi, Japan’s Coming of Age Day, the annual January celebration for young adults in the country wh...
Surviving my daughter’s killing
When 19-year-old Ann from Florida, USA was shot by her boyfriend in 2010, her family were thrust into a nightmare, one that meant taking the...
Being a girl dad
Ajit, a dad from India, tells Namulanta about realising just how tough the world can be for his daughters as they grow up in a male dominate...
The gift of life
Brenda, a Canadian mother living with chronic kidney disease, was facing a long and uncertain wait for a transplant, until 2013 when her dau...
Dear Daughter is back!
Namulanta Kombo is collecting letters of advice from around the world, to create a handbook for life for her daughter Koko – and daughters e...
Leaving for college
Shelley’s daughter leaves for college – it’s a thrilling moment for everyone, but at the same time there’s a sense of loss. What will happen...
Grieving you
Paola’s daughter Camilla was beautiful, with curly hair and big eyes like her mother. She loved bath time and eating mangoes. But she also h...
Don’t fear menopause
Annice Mukherjee is a hormone expert – she’s spent her career helping women deal with menopause. But when she develops breast cancer at 41,...
The nappy braai
Azola’s friends welcomed him to fatherhood with a surprise baby shower, called a nappy braai. Instead of the chilled Saturday barbecue he wa...
Walk away the first time
Listener Julia writes a letter to her future daughter with some advice from her own life: if a man ever hits you, walk away the first time....
The sexy novel at Christmas brunch
Malaka’s written her first book – it’s a romance novel with a lot of sex scenes. How will her family react? Malaka Grant published her first...
Bombs overhead
Firyal and her daughter were asleep when the Yemeni civil war reached their town in 2014. They woke up to the sound of bombs overhead – Firy...
Advice for partying
Every year Norwegian high school graduates paint the town red for “russefeiring”. It’s a month long period of intense partying to celebrate...
Divorce is not a dirty word
When Vandana’s marriage ended in divorce, she felt stigmatised and outcast. After a long and turbulent legal process, she ended up retrainin...
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