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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Faith, Hope and Glory: Gloria

Gloria

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By Rex Obano. Century-spanning series charting the emergence of modern Britain.

London. March 1963. As the 'Big Freeze' thaws, Joy is contemplating her future and a new love as Gloria faces some difficult decisions in her own relationships. By Rex Obano.

By Rex Obano.

We started following Hope Kiffin, Eunice Lamming and Gloria de Soto as they were embarking on their new lives in the UK back in 1946. It's now March 1963 and as Britain is emerging from the Big Freeze, Joy is discovering both the joys and the challenges of adulthood, something Gloria is painfully aware of.

Gloria ….. Pippa Bennett-Warner
Mabel ….. Dorothea Myer-Bennett
Joy ….. Sapphire Joy
Benny Junior ….. Joel MacCormack
Ida ….. Emma Handy
Benjamin ….. David Hounslow
Football Manager .…. Roger Ringrose
Patron/Waitress ….. Ruth Everett

Produced by Pat Cumper
Directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour.
 
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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.

As the Big Freeze thaws out, Joy is now 18 and contemplating her future; the relationships she wants to have and whether she wants to study at university. With her husband away, Gloria is facing some difficult decisions in her own life as well as her daughter's.

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