Faith, Hope and Glory

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A century-spanning drama series tracing the emergence of modern Britain.

A century-spanning drama series tracing the emergence of modern Britain through the lives of three women, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946.

Faith, Hope and Glory charts the lives of three women, connected forever by the theft of a beautiful pram in Tilbury in 1946. As they live through the eighty years since then, they witness and take part in the emergence of modern Britain.

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Hope’s new marriage is put to the test when ex-husband Jim returns from Hollywood. 

Set during the four-month long 'Big Freeze' of 1963, Hope’s new marriage to Rodney is put to the test when ex-husband Jim returns from Hollywood. By Roy Williams.

By Roy Williams

We began following Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto as they were beginning their lives in the UK back in 1946. It's now 1963 and Britain is in the middle of the Big Freeze. Family life gets more complicated for Hope when ex-husband Jim arrives back from Hollywood. For the first time, she faces her own role in her baby’s disappearance. Will that truth destroy the life she has worked so hard to build? 

Hope ….. Danielle Vitalis
Jim ….. Martins Imhangbe
Rodney ….. Richie Campbell
Maggie ….. Maeve O’Mahony
Sheila ….. Keziah Joseph 
Connor ….. Laurie Kynaston
Baby Eunice ….. Olantra Worrell

Produced and directed by Pat Cumper

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'Faith, Hope and Glory' returns for its fourth series on Radio 4. Three families are bound together by the fate of one baby lost and found at Tilbury Docks in 1946. And now a new generation of our characters begin to take their place in the rapidly changing Britain of the 1960s. 

Hope has re-married, to Rodney. Together they are raising both her own children, Sheila and James, and Jean, ex-husband Jim’s daughter from another relationship.   But she is hiding a secret from Rodney; the guilt at agreeing to send her first-born away.

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