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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 大象传媒 Radio 4 in October 1995.
Last on
Fri 7 Apr 2023
21:30
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