Marian Anderson has been played on NTS in shows including The Opera Show, featured first on 4 March 2015. Songs played include Deep River, My Lord, What A Morning and City Called Heaven.

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an African-American contralto best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

Anderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She joined a junior church choir at the age of six, and applied to an all-white music school after her graduation from high school in 1921, but was turned away because she was black. The…