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"Margaret Atwood" (28 results)
An introduction to the life and work of Margaret Atwood.
Offred is made an offer. Should she accept? Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century ...
Simon Schama meets renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood to discuss how art and writing can play a crucial ro...
Mary Beard talks to novelist Margaret Atwood about her career and her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.
Alan Yentob meets acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wi...
Simon Schama meets renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood to discuss how art and writing can play a crucial role in solving some of th...
An interview with Margaret Atwood who is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history and one of the world's leading female a...
Susheila Nasta and Anthony Joseph discuss The Lonely Londoners' author, Sam Selvon. His novel is a set text on OCR's A Level English ...
Margaret Atwood discusses the reality of The Handmaid's Tale in modern life, the influences she drew from a...
Margaret Atwood discusses her upbringing in Canada and how it has shaped her writing.
Mary and Margaret discuss politics, the glass ceiling and Aunt Lydia's powerful position in this respect compared to the handmaid's.
Margaret Atwood discusses the role of Aunty Lydia in ''The Handmaid's Tale'' and the sequel ''The Testaments''.
Mary Beard and Margaret Atwood debate totalitarianism within Gilead and whether its demise is inevitable.
Margaret Atwood ponders on the powerful tool that is reading and books, in relation to breaking the power of totalitarianism.
Margaret Atwood explains the influences for the handmaid's clothing.
Margaret Atwood discusses the impact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' has had on the fight for women's rights.
Margaret Atwood depicts the future of the USA in a post-Roe vs Wade world where abortion isn't a lawful right for women.
Margaret Atwood describes how history is cyclical and contemporary leaders or movements are based on nostalgic whims of the pas...
Margaret Atwood cites Romania and Nazi Germany who, like ''The Handmaid's Tale'', have been historically inclined to enforce pa...
An introduction to Canadian literature and how Margaret Atwood's writing fits in.
An introduction to the Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'.
Coincidently, the TV version of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' came out shortly after Trump was elected in 2016. This poignancy has been dubb...
Margaret and Mary discuss the differing strands of feminism and what happens after #MeToo.
Margaret Atwood tells Ernie Rea about the role of faith in her seminal novel and how her fiction, written nearly 40 years ago, reso...
Mary Beard and writer Bidisha talk to Harriett Gilbert about Margaret Atwood's modern classic a...
Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's groundbreaking feminist novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale', ...
An introduction to the plot and context of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', including readings from the book.
Kate Mosse and her guests - jazz singer, Jacqui Dankworth and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Sm...
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