The Whole Nine Yards Ep 213 23.2.25 Nothing Rhymed with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 213

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 23rd February 2025 3-5pm

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

Nothing Rhymed

Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, has had a profound impact on contemporary music.

His poetry has musicality and rhythm. His alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyming resonate with musicians. His poems read like songs..

Themes such as life, death, love, and nature are the natural fuel for musicians. His poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is about mortality and defiance, like so many great songs.

The emotional intensity of Thomas’s poetry, with its raw expression of human experience, hits the mainline with musicians. His bohemian spirit and lifestyle make him an icon for artists. His legacy as a poet who lived life on his own terms continues to inspire anyone for whom nothing rhymes..

Hour One

Gruff Rhys – Caitlin’s Theme (Set Fire to the Stars 2016)

Sean Bean – Notes on the Art of Poetry (National Poetry Day 2015)

Young Guns – I Want Out (Ones and Zeros 2014)

Sir Anthony Hopkins – Do Not Go Gentle into that Dark Night (Poetry of Dylan Thomas 2019)

Garbage – Big Bright World (Not Your Kind of People 2012)

Wax Idols – Scream (Happy Ending 2014)

The Jerks – Rage (The Jerks 1997)

Dylan Thomas – In My Craft or Sullen Art (Poems on the Radio 1945)

Better Oblivion Community Center – Dylan Thomas (Better Oblivion Community Center 2019)

Manic Street Preachers (featuring The Anchoress) – Dylan & Caitlin (Resistance Is Futile 2018)

The Anchoress – The Art of Losing (The Art of Losing 2021)

Tom O’Bedlam – I See the Boys of Summer (Early Dylan Thomas 2010)

Don Henley – The Boys of Summer (Building The Perfect Beast 1984)

The Gathering Field – Dylan Thomas Days (Gathering Field 1994)

Duke of Norfolk –  Dylan Thomas / Bitter Bitter (Attendre et Espérer 2018)

Cerys Matthews – The Reverend Eli Jenkins’ Prayer (Dylan Thomas / A Child’s Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs 2014)

Hour Two

Michael Sheen – Intro to Under Milk Wood (National Theatre Production 2021)

Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo Blue (Twentytwo in Blue 2018)

Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department (The Tortured Poets Department 2024)

Richard Burton – Deaths and Entrances (The Poetry of Dylan Thomas 2010)

Sixpence None the Richer – Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer 1997)

Bob Dylan – When the Ship Comes In (The Times They are A-Changin’ 1964)

Taran – No Dominion (Featuring Gerald Kilbride, Dave Danford & Dylan Thomas) (Hotel Rex 2011)

John Waite – New York City Girl (The Hard Way 2004)

St. Vincent – New York (Masseduction 2017)

Donovan – Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Beat Café 2004)

Richard Burton – The Greatest Poem in the English Language (Spoken Word 1960)

The Unthanks – Starless (Last 2017)

Howard Marks – Fern Hill (Howard Marks Reads Dylan Thomas 2016)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – The Dying of the Light (Chasing Yesterday 2015)

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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