Jean-Claude Vannier has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 25 May 2014. Jean-Claude Vannier's music has been featured on 34 episodes.

Jean-Claude Vannier is a French musician, composer and arranger. He was born during a bomb scare in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine in 1943. He was particularly well known as an associate of Serge Gainsbourg and for arranging scores for film in the 1960s, though he later became a solo recording artist in his own right. His musical style was influenced by jazz, baroque, klezmer, Asian and rock forms.

He was originally a record producer but was kept from working with more "commercially important" clients…