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World Service,02 Nov 1990,28 mins

Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale

Meridian

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Writer Margaret Atwood on her novel The Handmaid's Tale, plus review of the film: art critic William Feaver on Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art by Avram Kampf: report from the Warsaw Jazz Jamboree in Poland: stage director Terry Hands on art funding in the UK: new opera from British composer Judith Weir The Vanishing Bridegroom.

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