The Handmaid's Tale – Details, episodes & analysis
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Award-winning audio producer John Scott Dryden brings you into a dystopian future, in which the birth rate has plummeted and the United States has become a theocracy called Gilead. Women who are capable of childbirth are pulled out of society and trained as handmaids, then assigned to men for the sole purpose of procreation. From the same source material as the critically acclaimed Hulu series, this six part series of “The Handmaid’s Tale” is audio fiction at its finest.
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17/05/2026#72
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Part Six
Episode 6
jeudi 20 mai 2021 • Duration 28:36
In the series finale, another handmaid’s suicide alarms Offred, and intensifies her already difficult situation.
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Part Five
Episode 5
jeudi 13 mai 2021 • Duration 31:20
Frustrated that Offred has not yet conceived, Serena Joy proposes a solution. Meanwhile, the Commander has a surprise that leads Offred on an unexpected trip, and an encounter with an old friend.
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Part Four
Episode 4
jeudi 6 mai 2021 • Duration 26:38
Offred's after-hours visits with the Commander complicates her relationship with him. On one of their regular outings, another handmaid reveals a shocking secret about Offred's predecessor in the Commander’s home.
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Part Three
Episode 3
jeudi 29 avril 2021 • Duration 33:50
The protagonist receives a new assignment and name: Offred, “Of Fred.” It is her third posting as a handmaid, and she well knows what happens to handmaids who fail to bear a child. She settles into her new home, forging a complex relationship with the Commander’s wife, Serena Joy, as she prepares for the upcoming ceremony.
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Part Two
Episode 2
jeudi 22 avril 2021 • Duration 27:39
Having lost everything, including her name, our hero begins her indoctrination into the new religious order as she trains to become a handmaid. An honored position in this new world, she will be a servant whose sole function is procreation.
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Part One
Episode 1
mardi 20 avril 2021 • Duration 32:06
In the first of this six-part audio drama based on Margaret Atwood’s chilling novel, the United States government has been overthrown and replaced by a military theocracy called the Republic of Gilead. As women's rights are being stripped away, the protagonist and her family attempt to flee the country. But they are not so lucky.
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