Date Published: 27th September 2021
Saturday morning brought with it a lovely treat in the form of an interview for Alexander McCall Smith on Hugo Rifkind’s programme for Times Radio. What a delight! And you can listen-in right now on Catch Up.
The two talk at length about The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, ‘a powerful, universal success’, Alexander’s long-literary conversation that started with a short story, and the latest in the series, The Joy and Light Bus Company. Published this month (September), the book is available in print, e and audiobook formats.
‘a powerful, universal success’
Hugo Rifkind, Times Radio
They then go on to talk about 44 Scotland Street, the world’s longest running serial novel. Daily episodes are currently running in the Scotsman newspaper and will be published in hardback book format, e and audio in November 2021 as… Love in the Time of Bertie.
Listen now on Times Radio Catch Up. The interview started at 11.13 am. Only available until Friday 1 October 2021.
From The Joy and Light Bus Company:
Now that Mma Ramotswe had decided that she would do something, she would not walk away – she had never done that before in the face of a wrong that was crying out to be righted, and she would not start now. Mma Ramotswe was too modest to consider herself brave, but that was what she was. She was a brave woman, and however boastful men might be about their deeds of heroism, when it came to bravery, women could hold their heads up as high as could men, higher perhaps – not that these things should ever be measured.
