The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed.

If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness.

But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

Margaret Attwood’s multi award-winning futuristic dystopian novel first published in 1985.

Abridged in ten parts by Katie Campbell.

Read by Buffy Davis.

Producer: Sally Avens.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995. Show less