The 3 Best Dear Daughter Podcast Episodes
1) Live from Nairobi, part one: Finding love
How to approach dating – tips and laughs from parents in Kenya. Part one of this dating and relationships special, recorded in front of a live audience, explores the highs and lows of dating. Two lett...Show More
2) Pah Pah and Ma Ma
An escape by boat, pirates, prejudice and a “strength that lies within”. Charlene’s family was among the Vietnamese “boat people”, fleeing in search of a “better life”. Charlene fears her daughter mig...Show More
3) Perfect match
Matchmakers, a fake engagement ring and love; welcome to the marriage game. “They’ll wonder, are you good enough for their son? The question is, are they good enough for you?” Episode 7 letter writer:...Show More
4) 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 to their family when one piece of it is missing?So Shelley ...Show More
5) 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 had a severe mental and physical disability, and died aged 15...Show More
6) 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, she becomes a patient rather than a doctor.Annice writes a l...Show More
7) 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 was expecting, they handed him a beer and an adult nappy and t...Show More
8) 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. When her ex-boyfriend slapped her in the face, he said he ...Show More
9) 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 romance novel in 2013 – she’d been writing about sex and rom...Show More
10) 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 – Firyal was terrified, but her daughter was looking at her for re...Show More