Drama of the Week

By Carol Russell Cardiff, 1973. Faith’s world is shaken as Trevor’s health declines. Her increasingly politicised daughter Serena Hope sneaks off to London for the day, drawn by Biba and Brixton. Aware that her life is changing irrevocably, Faith decides to try one last time to make amends with her childhood friend, Hope. Faith ..… Shiloh Coke Trevor ..… Gary Beadle Merlene ….. Sharon Duncan-Brewster Hope …… Danielle Vitalis Serena Hope ..…. Bethan Mary-James Adamma ..… Tiwa Lade Jac …… Nkhanise Phiri Doctor/Reverend Baker ..…. Gerard McDermott Mr. Llewellyn/DJ …. Ewan Bailey Produced and directed by Pat Cumper ********* Faith, Hope and Glory returns for its sixth series on Radio 4. We first met three young women from the Caribbean, Hope James, Eunice Faith Isaac and Gloria de Soto, at the beginning of their lives in the UK after the Second World War. Two generations of three families, bound together by the fate of one baby lost and found on Tilbury Docks in 1946, are now taking their place in the rapidly changing Britain of the early 1970s. A new generation of Black Britons are coming of age, finding their political voice and growing confident in their British identity despite the racial tensions. In Cardiff, Faith has her hands full looking after Serena Hope and football-mad Winston. But whatever else is going on in her life, never far from Faith's thoughts is Hope’s daughter 'Baby Eunice' (now known as Joy), the child she lost on Tilbury Docks twenty-seven years ago.