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8. Jezebels

Episode 8 of 10

Offred comes across her old friend in very disturbing surroundings. A chilling vision of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.

Offred comes across her old friend in very disturbing surroundings

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 BBC Radio 4 in November 1995.

15 minutes

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