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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.
Emma, who is from Denmark, grew up with openness about her donor conception from the very start. When she was a baby, her parents wrote her...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brenda, a Canadian mother living with chronic kidney disease, was facing a long and uncertain wait for a transplant, until 2013 when her dau...
Namulanta Kombo is collecting letters of advice from around the world, to create a handbook for life for her daughter Koko – and daughters e...
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...
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...
Annice Mukherjee is a hormone expert – she’s spent her career helping women deal with menopause. But when she develops breast cancer at 41,...
Azola’s friends welcomed him to fatherhood with a surprise baby shower, called a nappy braai. Instead of the chilled Saturday barbecue he wa...
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....
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...
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...
Every year Norwegian high school graduates paint the town red for “russefeiring”. It’s a month long period of intense partying to celebrate...
When Vandana’s marriage ended in divorce, she felt stigmatised and outcast. After a long and turbulent legal process, she ended up retrainin...
Rahab went to prison when her children were little. She’d been taking part in carjackings and armed robberies. Once she got caught, she spen...
When Mahynour’s daughter gets her first bra, it’s Mahynour who is the most excited – her little girl is a young lady now. But it also brings...
Hot on the heels of our Stars season, stand by for Dear Daughter season 5, starting Friday April 25th. Namulanta Kombo is collecting letters...
Wen was raised believing sex is taboo but she knows she must change for her daughter’s sake. Her grandmother was ashamed to talk about it. H...
A bereaved father on parenting after grief. When Ani’s daughter was just two years old, his wife was diagnosed with cancer. Her illness domi...
TikTokker Mama Seebz on how she reacted when her daughter Aya (@notjustaya) told her she wanted to be a famous content creator. Seba got fru...
What should you do when your daughter tells you she doesn’t feel pretty? Kalki Koechlin has acted in blockbuster Bollywood films, written an...
Audrey Akande is best known for being one half of The Receipts podcast. She joins Namulanta in the studio to share the letter she’s written...
Wildlife ecologist and nature presenter Dr Rae Wynn-Grant joins Namulanta to share the letter she’s written for her daughters about how to o...
Bridgerton actor Adjoa Andoh joins Namulanta in the studio to share the letter she’s written to her three children. She tells them the impor...
Namulanta is back with more letters from parents to their children. But this time there’s a celebrity guest list! We’ll hear personal storie...
Yvonne was on a bus on a trip to Europe when she had a realisation. There’s more to life than having kids, she thought – I could travel the...
Farida grew up with 19 siblings in a polygamous family in Kenya. She’s been married five times, and four of those times have been to men who...
Regina had a difficult childhood. Her parents both struggled with addiction, and she developed substance abuse problems of her own. She thou...
Comedian Ria Lina finds out she is autistic after an audience member picks up on it at one of her shows. What does being autistic mean for h...
Gretchen’s daughter is transgender. When she first told her parents, it came as a shock – but Gretchen wants to tell her daughter she’ll alw...
Rehman becomes a widower with three children after the sudden death of his wife. Over a year later, he remarries a woman with three children...
Malini has a lot of regrets about her parenting - but her daughter Raji remembers things differently. Malini raised her family in a big mult...
Joy Kendi doesn’t want her hair to define her – so she shaves her head. Joy is an influencer in Kenya who’s known for her personal style – s...
Mary receives a menacing message and decides to leave her home. Mary has lived in Florida ever since her university days. It’s where she fel...
Wen is raised believing sex is taboo but knows she must change for her daughter’s sake. Her grandmother was ashamed to talk about it. Her mu...
New mum Janine Harouni is anxious and lonely, so why do the other mums online look so happy? She was performing stand-up comedy while 40 wee...
Anna fights her eating disorder, knowing she needs to be healthy if she wants to be a mum. She spent half her life dealing with the conditio...
Musikari risks his life fighting corruption in Kenya, but at what cost to his family? Namulanta’s father is a political, an anti-corruption...
Solene endlessly juggles work and parenthood, but something must give. She loves her job and wants to keep her identity, but she's working j...
Nadiya Hussain, TV chef and winner of The Great British Bake Off, writes a letter to her 13-year-old daughter about how to make space for he...
We’re back! Join us weekly from March 1 for the third season of the award-winning BBC World Service podcast Dear Daughter. Namulanta Kombo i...
Other people’s children. The mothers who leave their own families behind to care for someone else’s. This special episode, from The Document...
Disastrous dates and how to make a relationship last. It's our second live show in Nairobi, Kenya. We hear a tale of a truly disastrous date...
How to approach dating. Tips and laughs, as we explore relationships and the highs and lows of dating, in our first ever live show. Hear fro...