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5. The Commander

Episode 5 of 10

Offred responds to a bizarre request from her commander. Chilllng vision of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.

Offred responds to a bizarre request from her commander.

Margaret Attwood鈥檚 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 麻豆社 Radio 4 in October 1995.

15 minutes

Last on

Fri 7 Apr 2023 21:30
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