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The Classic Serial: The Handmaid's Tale Part 1

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of 21st-century America is dramatised in three parts by John Dryden.

This is the diary of a young woman recruited for reproductive purposes by a totalitarian regime that uses religion as a tool of state repression.

With Marsha Dietlein and Christopher Burns.

(Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Author:
Margaret Atwood
Dramatised by/Director:
John Dryden
Producer:
Jane Quill
[Actress]:
Marsha Dietlein
[Actor]:
Christopher Burns

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