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By Carol Russell

Cardiff, 1968. Faith and Trevor agree to take in a Biafran child whose mother needs to work in London. At the same time, they find themselves battling fierce opposition to their night club ownership. Some members of the local community have become enraged and emboldened by Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech.

Faith ..… Shiloh Coke
Trevor ..… Gary Beadle
Merlene ….. Sharon Duncan-Brewster
Isioma ..… Gayle Ngozi
Aneirin ..… Matthew Aubrey
Morgan ..… David Hounslow
Serena Hope ..… Rosie Ekenna
Adamma ..… Ifeoma Machie
Doctor ..… Roger Ringrose

Produced by Pat Cumper
Directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour

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Faith, Hope and Glory’ returns for its fifth 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 in 1946. 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 late 1960s.

This series is set in 1968. Racial tensions are growing, partly as a result of Enoch Powell’s controversial 'Rivers of Blood' speech and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968. It was the year of increasing student protest and the rise of the Black Panther movement in Britain. The Biafran War - Nigeria's civil war - is in full swing.

Faith (whose real name is Eunice) and her husband, former union activist Trevor, have been happily building their family together in Cardiff, with their son Winston and their eldest, Serena-Hope, who comes to the fore in this episode. But whatever else is going on in her life, never far from Faith's thoughts is Baby Eunice (now known as Joy), the child she lost on Tilbury Docks twenty-two years ago.