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By Carol Russell

We began following the lives of Caribbean-born Hope and Faith (Eunice) and British-born Gloria in 1946. It’s 1983 now and the day of Margaret Thatcher's re-election. A disillusioned and lonely Faith has decided to retire to Antigua. But then her estranged daughter Serena-Hope arrives in London seeking a legal pupillage and her son Winston is falsely arrested. Will that give her reason to stay?

Serena-Hope …. Bethan Mary-James
Faith ..... Shiloh Coke
Merlene ..... Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Winston ..... Daniel Francis-Swaby
David Wolff / Desk Sergeant …..Simon Ludders
Delroy ..... Olatunji Ayofe
PC Grant / Reporter ….. Ian Dunnett Jnr

Directed by Pat Cumper

A ´óÏó´«Ã½ Studios Audio Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4

Faith Hope and Glory began following the lives of Hope, Faith (Eunice) and Gloria in the UK in 1946. Three generations of three families bound together by the fate of one baby lost and found on Tilbury Dock. All three are now settled in their lives in early 1980s Britain.

We are now in 1983. It’s election time. There are tensions between right and left and young and old between and within families as a new generation of Black Britons take their place in Thatcher’s Britain, making their mark on the political, social, and creative fabric of their home.

Faith despairs of ever reconciling with her childhood friend Hope. With her husband dead and her children, Winston and Serena-Hope, all grown up, she has decided to retire back to the Caribbean.

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