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44 Scotland Street Series Book 4: The World According To Bertie
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 4
Duration 12h 20m
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 3: Love Over Scotland
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 3
Duration 13h 45m
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psy...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 2: Espresso Tales
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 2
Duration 12h 20m
This audiobook returns to the residents of '44 Scotland Street' (0244CD), with a new set of challenges for each one of them. Bruce, the intolerably vain and perpetually deluded ex-surveyor, is about to embark on a new career as a wine merchant, while his long-suffering flatmate Pat MacGregor, set up by matchmaking Domenica MacDonald, finds herself...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 05: The Full Cupboard of Life
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 6h 40m
The fifth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening re...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 5h 50m
A second collection of eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations based on the popular books by Alexander McCall Smith. 'this full- cast production will charm listeners whether they already know and love these stories or are hearing them for the first time' - Audiofile Magazine 'How to Handle Men through the Application of Psychology': Precious Ram...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 04: The Kalahari Typing School For Men
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 5h 45m
The fourth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Precious is continuing to run her detective agency from the garage of her fiance, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. Plans for their wedding need to be made - but when, if ever, will they wed? In the meantime Mma Ramotswe juggles new clients with her usual fo...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 7: Bertie Plays the Blues
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator David Rintoul
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 7
Duration 8h 40m
Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are somewhat lost due to sleep deprivation and the difficulties of telling their brood apart. Angus and Domenica...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 06: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Duration 7h 40m
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator, is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. She is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, and the Agency is very busy, but she cannot ignore a plea which is made to her by a woman with a tale of particular misfortune. Unf...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 13: The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 8h 50m
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on the advice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private Detection. But who is the eminent author, Mr Clovis Andersen, and what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very unlikely possibility, and yet . . . When Mr Andersen visits Botswana on holiday, he is delighted and int...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series Book 1: 44 Scotland Street
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Hilary Neville
Series44 Scotland Street, Book 1
Duration 12h 55m
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable is the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. There is the pushy Stockbridge mother and her prodig...
View BookThe No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 15: The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 7h 50m
Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Caf‚...
View BookThe Misunderstanding of Glencoe
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 27m
An Edinburgh couple on holiday in the Highlands discover that centuries-old tensions are still very near the surface. Starring John Buick, Kenny Blyth, Monica Gibb and Paul Young.
View BookWeird and Wonderful Machines: The Muscle Machine, the Banana Machine and the Joke Machine
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
Format: MP3 CD
Author Alexander Mccall Smith
Narrator Various Readers
Duration 3h 13m
THE MUSCLE MACHINE: Gordon is frustrated that Ted, the school bully, gets away with pushing people around - including Gordon! So when he spots an advertisement for Mr World's Muscle Machine, he's immediately curious and decides to send off for one. THE BANANA MACHINE: Patty lives with her Aunt Bat on a banana plantation in Jamaica. Unfortunately, a...
View BookA Very Rude Woman & Talking Shoes
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 8
Duration 1h 27m
'A Very Rude Woman' finds Precious Ramotswe facing change at The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, while Mr J.L.B. Matekoni meets the rudest person in all Botswana. 'Talking Shoes' sees a new detective taking on a case for the Agency, while Mma Ramotswe, among others, has a problem with high blood pressure.
View BookThere Is No Such Thing As Free Food & the Best Profession For A Blackmailer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 7
Duration 1h 27m
'There is No Such Thing as Free Food' finds Precious Ramotswe, owner and founder of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, preoccupied both professionally and personally by the subject of food. 'The Best Profession for a Blackmailer' sees Mr Polopetsi, part-time mechanic and would-be assistant detective, taking on a case of his own; while Mma Makutsi f...
View BookThe Return of Note & the Ceremony
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 6
Duration 1h 27m
'The Return of Note' finds Mma Ramotswe in a compromising situation when her past catches up with her. But things are looking brighter for her assistant, Mma Makutsi, when she takes up ballroom dancing... 'The Ceremony' sees Mma Ramotswe's agency work under control at last, so she has time to take care of her own problems. Can she release her fianc...
View BookAuthor: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 2
Duration 1h 28m
'The Maid' sees Mma Ramotswe visiting the house of the mechanic she has agreed to marry, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. But there is a shock in store for her... Back at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, there is the mystery of the erratic doctor to look into, and a 'cold case' involving an American who went missing from a communal farm. 'Tears of the Gira...
View Book44 Scotland Street Series 1 - 3
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 30m
Alexander McCall Smith's delightful series of novels form the basis of these radio dramas featuring the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement building. With its multiple-occupancy flats, Scotland Street is an interesting corner of Edinburgh's New Town. Verging on the Bohemian, here the haute bourgeoisie rubs shoulders with students and the more colo...
View BookKalahari Typing School & Admirer
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 4
Duration 1h 28m
Two stand-alone BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas adapted by Alexander McCall Smith from his much-loved series 'The Kalahari Typing School for Men' opens with bad news for Mma Ramotswe - her agency has competition in the form of the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency, run by a man. Mma Makutsi has entrepreneurial ambitions too, and has conceived t...
View BookHow To Handle Men Through the Application of Psychology & the House of Hope
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 5
Duration 1h 27m
Warm, humorous and uplifting, Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international bestsellers, sold over seven million copies, and been translated into 26 languages.These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exot...
View BookThe No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency: The Daddy & the Bone
Author: Alexander Mccall Smith
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Author Smith Alexander Mccall
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Book 1
Duration 1h 28m
'The Daddy' introduces us to Mma Ramotswe as she embarks on her first case and takes on a new secretary, the resourceful and talented Mma Makutsi. Together, they must find the truth about a Daddy who appears to have returned from the dead - as well as investigating a wayward teenage girl and attempting to find a vanished child. 'The Bone' sees the...
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