Thomas Almqvist has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 34 episodes and was first played on 16 July 2013.

Between the late 70s and early 90s, Thomas Almqvist released a series of folk LPs that tended towards the psychedelic, the experimental and the aleatoric. Almqvist was also known internationally for a series of art installations in which household appliances (televisions, washing machines etc) were reconstructed so as to, through their everyday functioning, slowly destroy themselves. Rarely appearing in public, Almqvist was the subject of several articles in academic journals, all of which suggested that he was, in fact, the alias of one…