Ralph Vaughan Williams has been played on NTS in shows including Kaizen w/ Madam X , featured first on 12 June 2016. Songs played include The Lark Ascending, Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis and Serenade To Music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (1872–1958) was an influential English composer.

Vaughan Williams was born on 12th October 1872 in Down Ampney, a village in the Cotswolds. After attending Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a student at the Royal College of Music; he later studied with Max Bruch in Berlin and Maurice Ravel in Paris.

He served as a lieutenant in World War I, having volunteered for the…