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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

‘Forgotten city’ of Newport takes centre stage in Celtic noir series Ar y Ffin

Erin Richards uses a mobile phone on a bridge
Erin Richards in the crime drama Ar y Ffin/Mudtown, set in Newport, south Wales. Photograph: S4C

The Welsh capital is often used as a setting for film and television drama, as are the country’s mountains, forests and coastlines, but a city sometimes seen as Cardiff’s poorer relative is starring in a new Welsh-language Celtic noir drama.

Newport, with its muddy river and post-industrial landscape, is the backdrop for Ar y Ffin (meaning on the edge or on the border), a twisty tale of a magistrate who uncovers a web of criminality, putting her and her family at risk.

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