Protos was first played on NTS on 9 April 2024. Songs played include The Fugitive.

Protos is a neo-prog UK band formed in 1977 by Rory Ridley-Duff (keyboards) and Steve Anscombe (guitars). They were active between 1977 and 1984. In 1982, they released One Day A New Horizon. Then the band members went their separate ways to build careers and have families. Throughout the time the founding duo learned that their one excursion into the field of music creation had become something of a collector's item, and a direct result of that was a reissue on CD in 2006. Another result was more music. Both Duff and Anscombe remained interested and to some extent active as musicians in the 22 years that had passed between the release of the Protos album and it's reissue on CD, and in 2007 a new studio album from the duo appeared: The Noble Pauper's Grave. The same year also saw the release of the live album In the Mouth of the Tiger, documenting the live performances of the last version of Protos from the early 80's. Protos are currently enjoying their newfound and rather surprising commercial interest, and are planning to release more new material in the forseeable future.