Alison Cotton has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 18 episodes and was first played on 2 August 2016.

Alison Cotton is a British viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. As well as her solo work, she is one half of the Walthamstow-based songwriting partnership, The Left Outsides. She has been a member of Saloon, The Eighteenth Day Of May, Trimdon Grange Explosion, …