The world of advertising is the setting for a brilliant scheme to influence and control the minds of millions of people exposed to the media. Based on the novel by Paul Gotlieb.
Feature-length TV film directed by Anthony Minghella and co-scripted with Richard Curtis ... more
based on the best-selling series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. The film stars Grammy Award-winning singer Jill Scott as Precious Remotswe a Botswanan woman who sets up the country's first female-owned detective agency. This is the first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana and the last work Minghella completed before his untimely death. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a poignant and passionate story chronicling the adventures of Precious Ramotswe. Eminently sensible she's the wise proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana. She investigates cases helps people solve problems in their lives and falls in love with the highly respectable owner of a local garage. Precious sells her late father's cows and moves to the city to become Botswana's finest - and only - female private detective. Her methods may be unconventional but she's got warmth wit and canny intuition on her side not to mention the support of her friends Mr JLB Matekoni proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors and Mma Makutsi the fastest-typing secretary in Gaborone. Precious needs as much help as she can get to solve the mysteries of a missing finger a dubious Daddy a cheating husband and as she heads into dark and dangerous territory of witchcraft.
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Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Phyllis Logan, Chris Jury, Malcolm Tierney
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Advantages: Great welcome, always happy to help, always only a call away, always there and on the case to find you work asap. Disadvantages: none
In my time I have tried all agencies, Adecco, Blue Arrow, Anne Jagger, Select, First Personal, the job centre and I have found out of all of them Brook Street have been the best, although I never got a placement through them the consultant I had was always trying his hardest to find me a joband whenever he arranged any interviews for me he always got me to come in so he could give me some interview advice and kind of interviewed me himself and gave me some feed back and really prepared me for my interviews. No other agency has gone this far for me. They all give you the details over the phone or via post.
Looking for work can be a stressful time and quite difficult, especially if you have to support yourself or a family. My tip is to register with as many agencies as possible let them know three important things which are the type ...
Advantages: Employers prefer them Disadvantages: They lie
I have tried most of them in my time, having had several periods of unemployment, and I cannot say I've ever encountered one I could trust.
They all come at you as the best, most caring, compassionate answer to your job-hunting prayers, and they are completely free to boot. Which ought to start alarm-bells ringing in these money-grubbing times. Of course they're free - to you, because you, the job-seeker (as we are expected to refer to ourselves now) are the fodder. The client is charged, though, and quite heavily, for your services, whereas you are paid at the minimum of - what is it now, following the latest Brownian orgasm of glad-handouts : £4.20 an hour? Agencies charge an average of £7.50 for you. Which most employers would rather pay than take you on full-time at £7 : because they can dump a temp in a moment, whereas there ...
Advantages: Wide spread over North London + Reliable staff Disadvantages: Not open on Sundays
My experiance with Network Agencies has been a good one. I have rented from many estate agencies and found that the independant ones like Network Agencies are the best when it comes to renting.
I like the fact that they are a family run business, the staff are very helpful and constantly busy which is very important with this kind of work as it is nice to feel appreciated, they made me feel like they really wanted to help me which they did.
In terms of maintenance problems, i would call them up if i had any doubts of worries and they would arrange to come out promply and rectify the situation, i never had to wait too long for them to come, of course
Moving in and out of their property was very easy, they are very professional yet so down to earth, and they really helped me with some problems i was going through. I maintained ...
The world of advertising is the setting for a brilliant scheme to influence and control the minds of millions of people exposed to the media. Based on the novel by Paul Gotlieb.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
BOULEVARD ENTERTAIMENT; PINNACLE VISION
Release date
10/01/2005
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BLVDD 0008
Barcode
5060092900089
Screenwriter
Noel Hynd
Author
Paul Gotlieb
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive Menu, Scene Index
Sound
Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital English
DVD Description
The world of advertising is the setting for a brilliant scheme to influence and control the minds of millions of people exposed to the media. Based on the novel by Paul Gotlieb.
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