Billy Pigg has been played on NTS shows including NTS Guide to…, with The Gypsy's Lullaby/ The Hawk/Memories/Coates Hall first played on 9 October 2021.

Billy Pigg (1902–1968) was an English player of Northumbrian smallpipes. He was a Vice-President and an influential member of the Northumbrian Pipers Society from 1930 until his death.

He was born at Dilston Park, near Corbridge, Northumberland, in January 1902 and died in November 1968.[1] He learned the instrument from several pipers including Tom and Henry Clough as well as Richard Mowat, but, according to Tommy Breckons, Batey of Stannington was his main teacher. Tommy later quoted Billy's reminiscences of the…