The Whole Nine Yards Ep 29 15.8.21 Rapture and Verse with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards 15th August 2021 3-5pm 

with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM Burgess Hill Community Radio 

www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive 

Episode 29 Rapture and Verse – Poetry converted to music by women. 

Poetry is everywhere and in some ways you can find it in every song. Pause and listen to the lyrics of the next song you listen to. Sometimes the words are the soul of the song and when a great melody underpins them the results can be rapturous. 

This week I choose songs based on female poetry, some, as Maya Angelou‘s poem Phenomenal Woman does, celebrate the strength of women and others talk about motherhood, growing old, losing love and triumphant survival. Others apply a unique female twist on classic poetry such as Joni Mitchell’s beautiful take on Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’. The power of women, words and music 

Hour One 

Maya Angelou – Phenomenal Woman (And Still I Rise 1978) 

Ruthie Foster – Phenomenal Woman (The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster 2007) 

Laura Mvula – Phenomenal Woman (The Dreaming Room 2016) 

Little Green Cars – He took me down to the river to silence me (Absolute Zero 2013) 

Sofi Tucker – Drinkee (Soft Animals 2016) 

Regina Spektor – Après Moi (Begin to Hope 2006) 

Taken by Trees – Bekännelse East of Eden 2009) 

Lana Del Ray – Body Electric (Born to Die – The Paradise Edition 2012) 

Stevie Nicks – Annabel Lee (In Your Dreams 2011) 

Goldfrapp – Little Bird (Seventh Wave 2008) 

Dana Winner – Morning Has Broken (Unforgettable 2001) 

May Erlewine – Never One Thing (Mother Lion 2017) 

Hour Two 

Lisa Hannigan – Anahorish (In Swim 2016) 

PJ Harvey – Angelene (Is This Desire 1998) 

Kate McGarry – I Carry Your Heart (If Less is More, Nothing is Everything 2008) 

Lucinda Williams – Compassion (Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone 2014) 

First Aid Kit – Stay Gold (Stay Gold 2014) 

Courtney Marie Matthews – Old Flowers (Old Flowers 2020) 

Buffy Saint-Marie God is Alive, Magic is Afoot (Illuminations 1969) 

Leona Lewis – Footprints in the Sand (Spirit 2008) 

Joni Mitchell – If (Shine 2007) 

Beth Orton – Poison Tree (Sugaring Season 2012) 

Loreena McKennitt – Dark Night of the Soul (The Mask and the Mirror 1994) 

Natalie Merchant – Spring & Fall: To a Young Child (Leave Your Sleep 2010) 

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Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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