Dear Daughter

Publisher:
BBC

Dear Daughter

5.0/5

Critic Rating

Extraordinary letters written from parents to their children with Namulanta Kombo. Sharing 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 t...


Critic Reviews

Score: 5

Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian Mar 4, 2023

"Hosted by the positive, optimistic Namulanta Kombo, mother to a young boy and girl, it’s a sweet show that believes the relationship between mothers and daughters is special. "

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Score: 5

Hollie Richardson • The Guardian Dec 10, 2021

"...from the inspiring and poignant to the funny, celebrating the most important relationship a woman can have in life."

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