NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Gil Scott-Heron on 9 October 2023. Gil Scott-Heron has been played on NTS over 320 times, featured on 271 episodes and was first played on 28 September 2011.

Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, died May 27, 2011 in New York City) was an American poet and musician, known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer, associated with African American militant activists. Heron is perhaps most well known for his poems/songs "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "What's the Word - Johannesburg" a movement hit during…