Screening of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency movie based the novel by Alexander McCall Smith took place on BBC One on Easter Sunday to an audience of 6.3 million.
The movie was filmed in Botswana last summer directed by Anthony Minghella, producer of the hugely successful film of Michael Ondaajte’s novel The English Patient.
The role of ‘traditionally built’ Mma Ramotswe is played by double Grammy winning jazz and blues singer, Jill Scott, and the screenplay has been written by Richard Curtis, best known for Four Weddings and Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, together with Anthony Minghella.
In November 2007 Polygon published an exclusive limited edition of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency which has been numbered and signed by the author, Alexander McCall Smith, and illustrator, Iain McIntosh. 
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