Margaret Atwood’s chilling vision of twenty-first century America. It is an age of plummeting birth rates; the result of chemical pollution, nuclear accidents, toxic spillages. The Handmaid’s Tale is the diary of a young woman recruited for reproductive purposes by a totalitarian regime that uses Religion as a tool of state repression.
A three-part audio drama for BBC Radio 4, starring Marsha Dietlein, Mireille Enos, Leslie Hendrix, Marian Seldes, Emma Roberts, Earl Hindman & Tasha Lawrence.
Music, Sacha Puttnam & Mitch Ogugua. Sound Design, Nick Russell Pavier; Producer, Jane Quill; Writer, Director & Executive Producer John Scott Dryden.