NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Tears For Fears on 28 January 2020. Tears For Fears has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 79 episodes and was first played on 19 October 2013.

Tears for Fears, named after a phrase found in Arthur Janov's book Prisoners of Pain, is a British pop/rock outfit formed in 1981 in Bath, England. Founder members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had been friends since their early teens and had already been in the shortlived ska band Graduate. Initially associated with the new wave and synthesiser bands of the early 1980s, Tears For Fears'…