IB Practice IOC Recording

Here is the recording I have done for the practice IOC. It was a section from Margret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. It was a 10 minute recording that I did.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0LPAI-F6AZhVklPRjdUR3NsRHo1V2xodXAzT3ZnWHlLMy1v

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