Warmly Welcome dear Mma Ramotswe podcast listeners and fans of the No1 Ladies Detective Agency novel serie. I’m Ednah Rosen from Botswana - I’m a chef and cookbook writer and my passion is to share my home country’s culture with you and the world. I know I have something in common with all of you - the LOVE FOR THE THE MMA RAMOTSWE BOOKS. In this episode we meet Mr Bee, an expert on elephants and CO/ founder of the elephant sanctuary “Elephant Havens” - a place that is captured in the...

Warmly welcome dear Mma Ramotswe podcast listeners. We all know that Botswana is the home country of the No.1 Lady Detective-  but how many of us knows how Botswana taste? To answer that question - what could not be better than to listen to a conversation between Sir Alexander McCall Smith and Botswana's No.1 Lady Chef Mma Ednah Rosen. In Mma Rosens newly awarded cookbook “Taste of Botswana” we find many of the traditional dishes that Mma Ramotswe and her friends loves, plus that we find...

Warmly welcome dear Mma Ramotswe podcast listeners and fans of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency novel series. In this episode we meet the National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Mr Kitso Motshwari. SOS Children Villages is a world known NGO giving orphans and vulnerable children a home. One of their children’s home is a role model for the No. 1 novel series Orphan farm where Mma Potakwane is the patron - regarded by Mma Ramotswe as her best and most wise friend. Now please join us...

Warmly welcome dear Mma Ramotswe lovers. In this episode we will meet Dr. Howard Moffat a very intersting person both in the books and in real life. Dr. Howard Moffat appears from time to time as a character in the The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books. He is a real person and is an old friend of the author of the novel serie professor Alexander McCall Smith. And believe it or not Dr. Moffat is a relative of the legendary Dr. Livingstone. I belive its partly because of Dr. Moffat and his...

Dumela boma / dumela bora - good day ladies and gentlemen! Dear Mma Ramotswe pod cast listeners in this new episode you will meet Unity Dow- one of Botswanas most remarkable woman. I’m pretty sure Mma Ramotswe would agree not only because they are from the same home village - Mochudi. Unity Dow is an internationally awarded democracy fighter, human rights activist, author of books, former high court judge, foreign minister and education minister and not to forget - a cattle farmer from...

In this very first episode of Mma Ramotswe Podcast you will hear an interview with professor Alexander McCall Smith, the author of the of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency- novel series. Highlights in Episode no1: -Remembering how the book character Mma Ramotswe took form in the village Mochudi in the African country Botswana. -Reflections on Mma Ramotswe´s character and her passions in life. -Alexander McCall Smith´s background in Africa and Botswana. -Is it true that The No. 1...