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By Roy Williams

1973. Hope’s son Jimmy is getting married. But what happens on his stag night threatens everything, even his future as a Black man in Britain. Can the family rally around him and get him to the church on time?

Hope ….. Danielle Vitalis
Jimmy ….. Michael Ajao
Sheila ….. Keziah Joseph
Jean ….. Cecilia Appiah
Rodney ….. Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Jim ….. Martins Imhangbe
Derek ….. Tristan Waterson
Pete ….. Hayden McClean
Mrs Brackett ….. Doreen Ingleton
Police Officer/Photographer…..Samuel James

Produced by Pat Cumper

Directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour

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Faith, Hope and Glory’ returns for its sixth series on Radio 4. We began following the lives of Hope James, Eunice Faith Isaac and Gloria de Soto in the UK in 1946. Two generations of three families, bound together by the fate of one baby lost and found on Tilbury Docks in 1946, are taking their place in the rapidly changing Britain of the early 1970s.

This series is set in 1973. Racial tensions have been simmering in London; the Mangrove 9 were tried and acquitted for inciting a riot in 1970 and the court acknowledged behaviour motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police. In 1972, four Black men were arrested at Oval underground station and jailed after being framed by the police. Black people are having to work out how they can carve out a future for themselves in the face of the challenges that threaten them.

Hope is happily married to her second husband, Rodney. Their three children are growing up and making different choices about their future; some of which find favour and some of which do not. James (known as Jimmy) is a mechanic and trying to make a career for himself. His decision to marry his long-term girl-friend Cynthia Brackett makes Hope proud. Jean, Jim's mixed-race illegitimate daughter, is at university studying fashion. She’s the first of the family to go to university but her desire for acceptance and belonging is never far from her mind. Sheila is deeply involved with the Black power movement, something that Hope and Rodney are not happy about. She’s also preoccupied with finding her long-lost sister, Eunice. Jim, the children's biological father, has been in the USA for many years now.