R.D. Laing has been played on NTS in shows including Bahamian Moor, featured first on 7 March 2020. Songs played include Eleven and Three.

Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. He is noted for his views, influenced by existential philosophy, on the causes and treatment of mental illness, which went against the psychiatric orthodoxy of the time by taking the expressions or communications of the individual patient or client as representing valid descriptions of lived experience or reality rather than as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. He is often associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, although, like many of his contemporaries also critical of psychiatry, he himself rejected this label. He made a significant contribution to the ethics of psychology.

Laing recorded one album for the Charisma Label in 1978 called ' Life Before Death' -. a very strange mixture of spoken word over a psych/ prog backing from Ken Howard and Alan Blaikey, which has never had a CD release and is hard to find.

He also recorded the track "Tipperary" for the compilation "Miniatures", which was compiled by Morgan Fisher for Cherry Red.