Still, if Oprah Winfrey exists in the dystopian reality of The Handmaid’s Tale, isn’t broadcasting a message of hope exactly what we would expect from her?
Neither Bruce Miller nor episode writer Kira Snyder weighed in on whether or not the voice on the radio came from Winfrey playing herself.
The time frame for The Handmaid’s Tale has never been specified on the show, but the technology and societal structure seen in the flashbacks to before the U.S. became Gilead indicates that the series is set sometime around present day, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the radio broadcaster was actually the Oprah Winfrey of the Handmaid’s Tale universe.