This month, Dua sits down with literary icon Margaret Atwood to discuss her groundbreaking novel The Handmaid’s Tale – a dystopian classic that continues to resonate decades after its 1985 publication. Set in a totalitarian society where women are stripped of their rights and forced into reproductive servitude, the novel explores themes of power, control, an ... Show More
Jul 14
Lea Ypi On Freedom, Communism And Growing Up In Albania In Free
For her July Service95 Book Club interview, Dua Lipa is joined by award-winning author and academic Lea Ypi to discuss Free, Lea’s internationally acclaimed memoir, which recounts her childhood in Albania during the collapse of communism. From hidden family histories and state su ... Show More
1h 6m
Jun 23
From The Archives: Paul Murray on family secrets, loneliness and The Bee Sting
From the archives this month: Dua’s February 2025 conversation with Irish author Paul Murray, on his novel The Bee Sting. An epic family saga set in contemporary Ireland, the novel follows the Barnes family through financial collapse, fractured relationships and the secrets that ... Show More
45m 56s
Oct 2025
S2 EP07 | Book Club: The Handmaid's Tale
We’re back with our Book Club episodes! This time, let’s dive into Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian vision of a society, based in the United States, where women are stripped of autonomy, constantly surveilled, and reduced to reproductive machines. The story ex ... Show More
22m 57s
Mar 2023
S16, Ep10 How To Fail: Margaret Atwood on wisdom, witchcraft and womanhood
For International Women's Day, I bring you - NO BIG DEAL - Margaret Atwood. The Booker-Prize winning author of numerous works including The Blind Assassin, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace, has been a pioneer in the depiction of women in literature, redefining the dystopian novel with h ... Show More
1h 5m
Mar 2023
Margaret Atwood on Good, Evil and Stupidity
Margaret Atwood, famed author, poet and “dystopia prophet,” joins Offline to talk about fighting tyranny and finding hope. Much like her latest book, Old Babes in the Wood, Atwood’s conversation with Jon sandwiches her thoughts and fears on the present between poignant chapters o ... Show More
45m 43s
May 2022
Margaret Atwood - Experiments in Living
Ian McMillan welcomes the Canadian poet and novelist Margaret Atwood, who joins The Verb from wild woods north of Toronto, to share poems from her new collection ‘Dearly’ and to explore the preoccupations that link her poetry and fiction: what it means to have a body, our increas ... Show More
44m 19s
Feb 2022
Margaret Atwood, Harriet Harman MP, Joanna Scanlan, Sportswomen's urinary incontinence
Margaret Atwood's latest collection of essays, Burning Questions, gathers together her essays and other occasional non-fiction pieces from 2004 to 2021. She is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bri ... Show More
56m 45s
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