A special radio series inspired by the music of Arthur Russell was broadcast on 13 November 2019. Arthur Russell has been played on NTS over 800 times, featured on 722 episodes and was first played on 3 November 2012.

Arthur Russell (May 21 1951 - April 4, 1992) was a prodigious talent. Classically trained on cello while growing up in Oskaloosa, USA, Arthur studied with Ali Akbar Khan in San Francisco in the early 1970's.

During this period he also collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, accompanying him on cello while Ginsberg read or sang. Russell also spent time in a Buddhist commune in California; he left…