2010-02-13 - Alexander McCall Smith and the philosopher detective

  This week, a conversation with writer Alexander McCall Smith. He´s best known for his series of novels about Precious Ramotswe and her No. 1 Ladies´ Detective Agency in Botswana. However, McCall Smith is also the creator of Isabel Dalhousie, a trained philosopher and editor of The Review of Applied Ethics, who solves mysteries in her native Edinburgh and contemplates the ethical problems behind them.