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Nicola Meighan discovers new and sometimes surprising insights about some of our best-loved household names as they reveal their strong connection to a particular place.

Nicola visits author Alexander McCall Smith at his remote Highland retreat on the Morvern Peninsula to explore this beautiful landscape from the water.

Alexander McCall Smith is one of the world's most prolific and best-loved authors. He's best known for the extremely successful The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series featuring the character Precious Ramotswe - Botswana's leading and only. female private detective. Sandy, as he likes to be known, lives with his wife in Edinburgh, the setting of his popular 44 Scotland Street series, and the Isabel Dalhousie novels. But he also has another life, on the remote and beautiful Morvern Peninsula where he likes to write in complete quiet and tranquillity.