Shira Small has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 2 August 2011. Shira Small's music has been featured on 49 episodes.

In 1974, Shira Small recorded under the auspices of a senior project at a small Quaker boarding school in Newtown, Pennsylvania, “Eternal Life” is the product of her four years away from the Wagner Projects in East Harlem.

“Eternal Life” came together from a scribbling on a bathroom wall (“Change is life’s only constant factor”), a troubling remedial math class (“The line of time and the plane of now”), and inspiration from turbulent feelings rocking her friend group during the Vietnam…