The No1 Ladies' Opera House ; Alexander Mccall Smith Enthralled Millions with His Bestselling Tales of a Detective Agency in Botswana. Now He Reveals His Latest and Most Ambitious Project ... Alexander Mccall Smith Enthralled Millions with His Bestselling Tales of a Detective Agency in Botswana. Now He Reveals His Latest and Most Ambitious Project . .

Mail on Sunday › June 22, 2008

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It won't work,' somebody said.

And heads nodded. 'An opera house at the side of a small road on the edge of the Kalahari? Not exactly sensible.' That's the nice thing about hare-brained schemes - they may not be exactly sensible, but then if we all stuck to sensible schemes we would never have great triumphs like the Dome, for instance - well, that is not the best example.

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The No1 Ladies' Opera House ; Alexander Mccall Smith Enthralled Millions with His Bestselling Tales of a Detective Agency in Botswana. Now He Reveals His Latest and Most Ambitious Project ... Alexander Mccall Smith Enthralled Millions with His Bestselling Tales of a Detective Agency in Botswana. Now He Reveals His Latest and Most Ambitious Project . .

So, let me explain why last night, at the side of a dusty road outside Gaborone, we opened the first and only opera house in Botswana - the No 1 Ladies' Opera House.

Precious Ramotswe, the fictional founder of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, was not there, but many others were, with all 60 seats firmly and enthusiastically occupied and people standing outside under the stars looking in.

When an opera...

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