The Whole Nine Yards Ep 210 2.2.25 Midnight Mother/Ebony Father with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 210

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 2nd February 2025 3-5pm

http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Midnight Mothers / Ebony Fathers

The black experience, at times harrowing, has nevertheless produced some magnificent music, poetry and art. On the show this week we feature over 20 powerful tracks that span genres and generations, telling stories of resilience, triumph, and cultural pride from both sides of the Atlantic.

We’ll also showcase three spoken word pieces by leading female black performance poets. There is some consolation in knowing that ancestral pain sometimes leads to cultural gain..

Hour One

Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come (Ain’t That Good News 1964)

Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Silk & Soul 1967)

IQ Musique ft Neiel Israel – When a Black Man Walks (At NPS in Oakland, CA. 2014) (When a Black Man Walks 2014)

Gregg Kofi Brown feat Des’ree and Gabrielle – Wake Up the Morning (Together as One 2006)

Bob Marley – Redemption Song (Uprising 1980)

Aretha Franklin – Respect (I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967)

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (What’s Going On 1971)

Sade – Slave Song (Love Deluxe 1992)

Alicia Keys – Queen of the Field (12 Years a Slave  2013)

Solange – Cranes in the Sky (A Seat at the Table 2016)

Black Pumas – Ain’t No Love at the Heart of the City (Black Pumas 2019)

Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street (Across 110th Street OST 1973)

Hour Two

Anderson .Paak – The Season / Carry Me Malibu 2016)

Noname – Casket Pretty (Telefone 2016)

H.E.R. – I Can’t Breathe (I Can’t Breathe 2020)

Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution (Tracy Chapman 1988)

John Legend – Glory (Selma (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2014)

Common – Letter to the Free (Black America Again 2016)

India.Arie – Brown Skin            (Acoustic Soul 2001)

Jenny Mitchell – When Our Mother Dies (live mix) 2023)

Leon Bridges – River (Coming Home 2015)

Janae Johnson – Black Rage (Janae Johnson at NPS in Oakland, CA. 2015)

William DeVaughan – Be Thankful for What You Got (Be Thankful for What You Got 1974)

Courtney Pine & Susaye Greene – Children of the Ghetto (Journey to the Urge Within 1986)

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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