Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale | Part 2

Duration: 1'05'30''

Synopsis

The conclusion of Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century America. Read by Buffy Davis.

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Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 1

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Offred is made an offer. Should she accept? Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century Ame...

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 2

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1995 | 1'05'30''

The conclusion of Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century America. Read by Buffy Davis.

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 1

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 1

1995 | 1'08'00''

Offred is made an offer. Should she accept? Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century Ame...

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 2

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 2

1995 | 1'05'30''

The conclusion of Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century America. Read by Buffy Davis.

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 1

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 1

1995 | 1'08'00''

Offred is made an offer. Should she accept? Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century Ame...

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 2

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale | Part 2

1995 | 1'05'30''

The conclusion of Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century America. Read by Buffy Davis.
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The Handmaid's Tale | BBC News | 2013

Talking Books | Atwood on ''The Handmaid's Tale''

Margaret Atwood discusses the reality of The Handmaid's Tale in modern life, the influences she drew from and why it has become such an important novel of our times.
The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022

Simon Schama Meets | Governmental procreation

Margaret Atwood cites Romania and Nazi Germany who, like ''The Handmaid's Tale'', have been historically inclined to enforce particular procreation of certain groups or peoples.