No 1 ladies detective agency series#

Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION. If you've been watching 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' or if you've read the novels, what's the impression of Africa you're getting? Give us a call at 80, or send us an email to And you can join the conversation at our Web site. NEARY: And we want to hear from you, the listeners. STANLEY CROUCH (Writer, The Daily Beast): Thank you. He joins us now from our New York Bureau.

No 1 ladies detective agency series#

NEARY: Writing about the series in the online magazine The Daily Beast, writer and cultural critic Stanley Crouch praised it for its honest depiction of Africa. Unidentified Woman: What difference would it make? I'm unhappy now. SCOTT: (as Mma Precious Ramotswe) Do you really want to solve this mystery, even if the resolution makes you unhappy? You know, I know he has many women friends, but when he joined this group, he promised to turn over a new leaf. Unidentified Woman: It wouldn't surprise me. JILL SCOTT: (as Mma Precious Ramotswe) There's a possibility. Unidentified Woman: Maybe he has found himself a nice, young apostolic lady with a better blanket than me. (Soundbite of TV show, 'No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency') In this episode, a husband has gone missing shortly after he joined a new church.

Set in Botswana, they feature Precious Ramotswe as the country's first lady detectives.Įach week, the resourceful Precious manages to drum a up business for her fledgling agency. Right now, the hugely popular 'No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency' novels by Alexander McCall Smith have been made into a series airing on HBO.