Les Dawson has been played on NTS in shows including Bleep, featured first on 14 March 2014. Songs played include Our Love Story.

Leslie "Les" Dawson (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was a popular English comedian remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

Raised in the Collyhurst district of Manchester, Dawson began his entertainment career as a pianist in a Parisian brothel – according to his entertaining but factually unreliable autobiography. As a club pianist ("I finally heard some applause from a bald man and said 'thank you for clapping me' and he said 'I'm not clapping…