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From May to Etta with Love is a series of six short audio dramas inspired by an extraordinary photo collection held by Glamorgan Archives.

The pictures are from the studio of Fred Petersen, an early portrait photographer who had a business at 232 Bute Street, Cardiff from 1910-1920. Fred’s beautifully intimate and intriguing pictures are notable for portraying Black and mixed heritage children and families from Cardiff’s historically diverse docks community. The collection was donated to Glamorgan Archives in the 1970s with no contextual detail. Despite numerous public appeals over the years, almost all the subjects of the photos remain unidentified…