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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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The Great Political Fictions: The Handmaid’s Tale

For the final episode in the current series, David discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), her unforgettable dystopian vision of a future American patriarchy.  Where is Gilead?  When is Gilead?  How did it happen?  How can it be stopped?  From puritanism and slavery to Iran and Romania, from demography and racism to Playboy and Scrabble, this novel takes the familiar and the known and makes them hauntingly and terrifyingly new.


Coming next: The Ideas Behind UK General Elections, starting with the game-changing election of 1906.


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20 June 2024

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