43. Faith

Set in 2025, Faith is approaching her 100th birthday with her wit, defiance and independence firmly intact. As preparations gather pace, figures from her past begin to press close, voices and memories that refuse to stay quiet. When a song Faith once wrote resurfaces in the present, it draws her back through a life shaped by love, compromise and unfinished business, and strengthens her resolve to be heard at last. While her daughter, Serena Hope, worries about what is memory and what is risk, Faith insists on telling her story in her own way, surrounded by the people who have mattered most to her.

Faith, Hope and Glory is an ambitious Radio 4 drama series telling intimate domestic stories that together illuminate the emergence of modern Britain. The story began in 1946, when Hope and Jim’s baby was entrusted to Eunice, later known as Faith, to take home to Antigua, but never made that journey and was taken in by Gloria and Clement. Named Joy, the child becomes the emotional centre of the series, her life unfolding across decades as personal lives intersect with social change.

Faith . . . . . Shiloh Coke
Serena Hope . . . . . Rakie Ayola
Trevor . . . . . Gary Beadle
Hope . . . . . Danielle Vitalis
Millie . . . . . Yasmin Mowanza
Benson . . . . . Sam Swann
Doctor . . . . . Clare Corbett

Writer: Winsome Pinnock
Director: Roy Williams
Producer: Jessica Dromgoole
Production co-ordinators: Ben Hollands & Kate Gray

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4.