Ethel Smyth has been played on NTS in shows including The Opera Show, featured first on 4 October 2016. Songs played include Suite For Strings Op. 1 A, Violin Sonata In B Flat Major (1872) and The March Of The Women.

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.

She was born in London. J H Smyth, her father, was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery. She was one of eight siblings two of whom were male, the rest girls. Her family was opposed to her making a career in…