Vern Partlow has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 25 April 2023. Songs played include Atomic Talking Blues.

Vern Partlow was an American newspaper reporter and folk singer who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He composed the popular satirical song "Old Man Atom," which was famously banned during the period. It is considered one of the first anti-nuclear songs of the post-war era