source: Property Wire
Written by Limpopo Lipadi
Monday, 09 March 2009
Following the huge success of the first feature length drama broadcast on the BBC last March, the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency filmed entirely in Botswana will return to our screens this month as a six part series starting on Sunday 15th March 2009 at 9pm on BBC1.
Based on the best selling novels by Alexander McCall-Smith, the series chronicles the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana. And with an all star cast including Grammy Award winning singer Jill Scott and Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose the second series promises to continue the vision of the late Academy Award winning director, Anthony Minghella.
But it's not just the actors who are the stars of this show, with the series being entirely filmed on location in Botswana the stunning country in southern Africa and the Batswana people also play a starring role as producer Timothy Bricknell commented,
"Everyone involved is very pleased to be back in Botswana and capturing the essence of such a remarkable and extraordinary country."
This is a sentiment shared too by Alan Marneweck, founder and shareholder of the Limpopo-Lipadi Game & Wilderness reserve located in the malaria free Tuli block of eastern Botswana, who goes on to [continue reading]
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2 comments:
It's fantastic the publicity that the books and the movies are doing for our country!
One small nit picky edit in your post. Batswana are the people so you shouldn't say Batswana people, rather just Batswana, sort of like Americans.
Lauri
http://thoughtsfrombotswana.blogspot.com
Well I acquiesce in but I about the collection should prepare more info then it has.
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