Najma Akhtar has been played on NTS in shows including SHAPE+, featured first on 31 August 2016. Songs played include There Are Some Men and Neend Koyi.

Najma Akhtar (born 18 September 1962, Chelmsford, Essex), also known as Najma, is an English pop singer of South Asian ancestry.

Her distinctive style ranges from fusions of jazz and Indian ghazal, doing updated arrangements of these ghazals (love songs and spiritual songs), along with traditional bhajans and the occasional Bollywood hit.