麻豆社

Mark Lawson talks to the internationally successful author Alexander McCall Smith, whose No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series of books, set in Botswana and centring on the investigations of the redoubtable Precious Ramotswe, have sold in their millions around the world.

McCall Smith talks about the influence of Armistead Maupin on his literary serial 44 Scotland Street and about his Corduroy Mansions series of novels which feature a fictional Liberal Democrat MP, Oedipus Snark.

He also discusses his childhood in southern Rhodesia, where his father worked as a public prosecutor, as well as his literary influences and his career as a professor of medical law, during which time he published works on the forensic aspects of sleep and the prosecution of historic crimes.