The Whole Nine Yards Ep 250 9.11.25 The Long Goodbye with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 250     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 9th November 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye was a Raymond Chandler 1953 novel ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a noir classic, later adapted into a 1973 film by Robert Altman. The phrase has since become shorthand for bittersweet departures in literature, film, and music.

In a Remembrance Sunday context, it symbolises the slow, generational process of mourning – the memory of loss echoing through time.

It’s also a reminder of remembrance, where goodbye is never truly final, but revisited year after year. This afternoon we gather the ghosts of goodbye. So sit down and remember the special people in your life and let the music do what words can’t – say farewell without having to say goodbye…

Hour One

Nena – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Cover Me 2007)

Mumm-Ra –  Goodbye (Back to Shore 2014)

Northern Uproar – Goodbye (Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today1997)

The Pigeon Detectives – Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Wait For Me 2007)

All About Eve – Farewell to Sorrow (Touched by the Hand of Jesus 1991)

James Bay – Goodbye Never Felt So Bad (Single release only 2023)

The Sundays – Goodbye (Blind 1992)

Gretchen Peters – To Say Goodbye (Burnt Toast & Offerings 2007)

Kathleen Edwards – Say Goodbye, Tell No-one (Billionaire 2025)

Rod Stewart – Farewell (Smiler 1973)

Rod Stewart – Grace (Blood Red Roses 2018)

Hour Two

Jools Holland ft Marc Almond – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Small World, Big Band 2001)

Imelda May – Black Tears  (featuring Jeff Beck) (Love Flesh Blood 2017)

ABC – Kiss Me Goodbye (The Lexicon of Love II 2016)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Go Your Way (Raise the Roof 2021)

Cage the Elephant – Goodbye (Social Cues 2019)

Roy Rogers & Dale Evans – Happy Trails (Single release / The Roy Rogers Show 1952)

The Yearning – The Moment Your Heart Would Say Goodbye (Evening Souvenirs 2015)

Colin Blunstone – Caroline Goodbye (One Year 1971)

Glen Campbell – There is no Me..without You (Ghost on the Canvas 2011)

Brighton Gay Men’s Choir – The Last Goodbye (Somewhere For Me 2013)

Jacob Collier – Something Heavy (The Light For Days 2025)

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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