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The Testaments

Episode 4

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Margaret Atwood's brilliant and long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

In The Testaments, set fifteen years after the events of Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, the testimonies of three women bring the story to a dramatic conclusion. Today we continue with Agnes’ story – still in shock from the discovery that her mother was a Handmaid, Agnes is given a very unwelcome lesson in sex and death...

Writer: Margaret Atwood
Reader: Katherine Press
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett Show less

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