The Handmaid's Tale

Wondery

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. Binge all episodes of The Handmaid's Tale ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/the-handmaids-tale/ now.

  • 6 minutes 14 seconds
    Listen Now: We Came to the Forest

    Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility planned for Atlanta. She decides to join the activists trying to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Forest, she quickly finds a community, a cause and a love unlike any other. But the events of one morning shatters everything. Vienna and everyone connected to the forest begin to question what are you willing to die for? Wondery, Campside and Tenderfoot TV present: We Came to the Forest.


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    27 January 2025, 8:00 am
  • 28 minutes 36 seconds
    Part Six

    In the series finale, another handmaid’s suicide alarms Offred, and intensifies her already difficult situation.

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    20 May 2021, 7:00 am
  • 31 minutes 20 seconds
    Part Five

    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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    13 May 2021, 7:00 am
  • 26 minutes 38 seconds
    Part Four

    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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    6 May 2021, 7:00 am
  • 33 minutes 50 seconds
    Part Three

    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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    29 April 2021, 7:00 am
  • 27 minutes 39 seconds
    Part Two

    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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    22 April 2021, 7:05 am
  • 32 minutes 6 seconds
    Part One

    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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    20 April 2021, 4:13 am
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