"Margaret Atwood" (29 results)

Bookclub | Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

Bookclub | Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Radio 4 | 2018 | 27'18''

Simon Schama meets renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood to discuss how art and writing can play a crucial ro...

Front Row Late | When Mary Beard Met Margaret Atwood

Front Row Late | When Mary Beard Met Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 39'06''

Mary Beard talks to novelist Margaret Atwood about her career and her sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

imagine… | Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!

imagine… | Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned!

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2017 | 58'58''

Alan Yentob meets acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wi...

Simon Schama Meets | Margaret Atwood

Simon Schama Meets | Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022 | 28'59''

Simon Schama meets renowned Canadian author Margaret Atwood to discuss how art and writing can play a crucial role in solving some of th...

Talking Books | Margaret Atwood

Talking Books | Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC News | 2013 | 24'38''

An interview with Margaret Atwood who is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history and one of the world's leading female a...

imagine… | Margaret Atwood

imagine… | Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 4'20''

An introduction to the life and work of Margaret Atwood.

Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Radio 4 Extra | 1995 | 1'08'00''

Offred is made an offer. Should she accept? Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of future female subjugation in 21st-century ...

Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | Margaret Atwood – Siren Song

Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) | Margaret Atwood – Siren Song

Siren Song | BBC Two | 2003 | 2'24''

Read by Naomie Harris.

Open Book | Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon

Open Book | Margaret Atwood, Sam Selvon

The Lonely Londoners | BBC Radio 4 | 2023 | 14'34''

Susheila Nasta and Anthony Joseph discuss The Lonely Londoners' author, Sam Selvon. His novel is a set text on OCR's A Level English ...

Talking Books | Atwood on ”The Handmaid’s Tale”

Talking Books | Atwood on ”The Handmaid’s Tale”

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC News | 2013 | 4'59''

Margaret Atwood discusses the reality of The Handmaid's Tale in modern life, the influences she drew from a...

Front Row Late | Atwood on politics

Front Row Late | Atwood on politics

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 2'38''

Mary and Margaret discuss politics, the glass ceiling and Aunt Lydia's powerful position in this respect compared to the handmaid's.

Beyond Belief | The Handmaid’s Tale

Beyond Belief | The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Radio 4 | 2022 | 27'25''

Margaret Atwood tells Ernie Rea about the role of faith in her seminal novel and how her fiction, written nearly 40 years ago, reso...

Front Row Late | Aunt Lydia in ”The Testaments”

Front Row Late | Aunt Lydia in ”The Testaments”

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 1'44''

Margaret Atwood discusses the role of Aunty Lydia in ''The Handmaid's Tale'' and the sequel ''The Testaments''.

Front Row Late | Gilead and totalitarianism

Front Row Late | Gilead and totalitarianism

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 1'49''

Mary Beard and Margaret Atwood debate totalitarianism within Gilead and whether its demise is inevitable.

Front Row Late | Reading in Gilead

Front Row Late | Reading in Gilead

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 1'25''

Margaret Atwood ponders on the powerful tool that is reading and books, in relation to breaking the power of totalitarianism.

imagine… | Atwoods upbringing in Canada

imagine… | Atwoods upbringing in Canada

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 5'24''

Margaret Atwood discusses her upbringing in Canada and how it has shaped her writing.

imagine… | The handmaid’s clothing

imagine… | The handmaid’s clothing

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 1'11''

Margaret Atwood explains the influences for the handmaid's clothing.

imagine… | The Handmaids Tale and womens rights

imagine… | The Handmaids Tale and womens rights

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 2'31''

Margaret Atwood discusses the impact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' has had on the fight for women's rights.

Simon Schama Meets | Roe vs Wade

Simon Schama Meets | Roe vs Wade

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022 | 4'47''

Margaret Atwood depicts the future of the USA in a post-Roe vs Wade world where abortion isn't a lawful right for women.

Simon Schama Meets | Handmaid’s history

Simon Schama Meets | Handmaid’s history

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022 | 2'50''

Margaret Atwood describes how history is cyclical and contemporary leaders or movements are based on nostalgic whims of the pas...

Simon Schama Meets | Governmental procreation

Simon Schama Meets | Governmental procreation

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022 | 1'54''

Margaret Atwood cites Romania and Nazi Germany who, like ''The Handmaid's Tale'', have been historically inclined to enforce pa...

Simon Schama Meets | Prophetic writing

Simon Schama Meets | Prophetic writing

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Four | 2022 | 2'38''

Coincidently, the TV version of ''The Handmaid's Tale'' came out shortly after Trump was elected in 2016. This poignancy has been dubb...

A Good Read | Mary Beard & Bidisha at The Cheltenham Literature Festival

A Good Read | Mary Beard & Bidisha at The Cheltenham Literature Festival

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Radio 4 | 2011 | 27'37''

Mary Beard and writer Bidisha talk to Harriett Gilbert about Margaret Atwood's modern classic a...

Proms | The Handmaid’s Tale

Proms | The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Radio 3 | 2012 | 20'26''

Veteran war reporter Kate Adie and novelist Aminatta Forna discuss Margaret Atwood's groundbreaking feminist novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale', ...

Novels That Shaped Our World | The Handmaid’s Tale

Novels That Shaped Our World | The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 4'22''

An introduction to the plot and context of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', including readings from the book.

Front Row Late | Feminism and #MeToo

Front Row Late | Feminism and #MeToo

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC Two | 2019 | 7'20''

Margaret and Mary discuss the differing strands of feminism and what happens after #MeToo.

imagine… | Canadian literature

imagine… | Canadian literature

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 3'53''

An introduction to Canadian literature and how Margaret Atwood's writing fits in.

imagine… | Introduction to the Handmaids Tale

imagine… | Introduction to the Handmaids Tale

The Handmaid's Tale | BBC One | 2018 | 3'54''

An introduction to the Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'.

A Good Read | Jacqui Dankworth and Chris Smith

A Good Read | Jacqui Dankworth and Chris Smith

Resistance | BBC Radio 4 | 2008 | 27'29''

Kate Mosse and her guests - jazz singer, Jacqui Dankworth and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Sm...
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