NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Joan Armatrading on 18 November 2022. Joan Armatrading has been played on NTS over 70 times, featured on 59 episodes and was first played on 31 January 2013.

Joan Armatrading MBE (born Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading in Basseterre, Saint Kitts on 9 December 1950) and brought up in Birmingham, England, is a British singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Armatrading has mixed eclectic musical styles over decades of recording and performing. She has had several British hit singles, the biggest of which were "Love & Affection", "Me Myself I", and "Drop the Pilot". Her music is generally pop, with…