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4. Birth Day

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Offred sees her friend give birth, evoking memories of her feminist mother. Read by Buffy Davis.

Offred sees her friend give birth, evoking memories of her feminist mother.

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.

15 minutes

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