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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: 2. The Waiting Room

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

2. The Waiting Room

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 2. The Waiting Room

Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor. A chilling vision of female oppression.

Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor. A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.

Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor. 

Margaret Attwood’s multi-award-winning futuristic dystopian novel.

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.

Abridged 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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