NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Ranking Ann on 21 January 2020. Ranking Ann has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 50 episodes and was first played on 26 September 2014.

b. Ann Swinton. Ranking Ann came to prominence on her brother’s Black Rock sound system playing in and around London. She began her recording career with an uncompromising debut, ‘Liberated Woman’. This resulted in her being categorized as the music’s feminist DJ. When labelled as such, she announced, ‘No Rasta me’s a individualist’. In 1982 she released ‘Love On A Mountain Top’ but returned to her revolutionary style…