Faith, Hope and Glory

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Drama: Historical

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: Series 5: Clement

Clement

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Epic drama charting the emergence of modern multicultural Britain. By Rex Obano.

1983. Election day. Gloria’s vigil at her ex-husband Clement’s bedside is complicated by the arrival of their daughter Joy who has troubling secrets of her own. By Rex Obano.

By Rex Obano

Election day, 1983. Gloria panics when she thinks her hospitalised ex-husband Clement might tell their daughter Joy the truth of how she came into their lives.  As they try to work out what's wrong with him, her well-meaning intervention in Joy’s marriage only risks making things worse. 

Joy ….. Cherrelle Skeete
Gloria ….. Jaye Griffiths
Dr Genghis Khan…..Asif Khan
Hopeton ….. Solomon Israel
Mabel ….. Dorothea Myer-Bennett
Hospital Sister ….. Ruth Everett
Nurse ….. Marilyn Nnadebe
Children ….. Jaiden Dosanjh and Saara Gurjee

Directed by Pat Cumper

A BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC 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.

It’s election time, 1983. 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. 

Gloria, now retired, is torn between her love for her dying ex-husband Clement and for her partner Mabel; and she's anxious about her daughter Joy's marriage to Hopeton, with their young family.

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