The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of radio programmes, based on the series of novels of the same name by

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. McCall Smith himself dramatised the series for

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. Thirty-five episodes have been broadcast, the first on 10 September 2004, and the most recent on 23 September 2019. The episodes encompass the

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to the nineteenth books.

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plays Mma Ramotswe for most of the episodes up to 2016, with Janice Acquah playing the lead for the 2010 episodes, and from 2017 onwards.

Episodes

References

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BBC Radio 4 programmes