Isla Cameron has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 18 October 2015. Songs played include Blow The Candles Out, Take Me Out Of Pity and Oh, No John, No John, No!.

Isla Cameron (c. 1930 - 1980) was a Scottish singer and actress. She was, for much of the 1950s, a singing partner of Ewan MacColl. In her time she was one of Britain's most popular woman folk singers, performing regularly in clubs throughout the British Isles. Her pioneering work in the 1950s paved the way for such figures as Sandy Denny and opened English folk music to…