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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: 1. The Posting

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

1. The Posting

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A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. Offred looks to her future.

A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. Offred looks to her future. Read by Buffy Davis.

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.

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Serialisation of Margaret Atwood's novel set in a world of women under oppression

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