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3. The Ceremony

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Offred sees how non-conformists are treated and begins her duty as surrogate child-bearer. Read by Buffy Davis.

Offred sees how non-conformists are treated and begins her duty as surrogate child-bearer.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in October 1995.

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