Paul Robeson has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Records, featured first on 7 September 2013. Songs played include Ol' Man River, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child and No More Auction BLock.

Paul Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American actor, athlete, bass-baritone concert singer, writer, civil rights activist, Spingarn Medal winner, and Lenin Peace Prize laureate.

Robeson found fame as an actor and singer with his fine bass-baritone voice. He is one of the few true basses in American music, his beautiful and powerful voice descending as low as a C below the bass clef. In…