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The Whole Nine Yards Series 2 Ep 8 21.3.21 Passport to La-La Land with Roy Stannard on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 21.3.21 3-5pm

broadcast on www.burgesshillradio.co.uk Show 8
with

Roy Stannard

Passport to #LaLaLand

Right now, we all want a ticket to La-la Land. In fact we all want a ticket to just about anywhere. The expression La-La land seems to date back to 1979 when people used it to mean a mystical, whimsical place inspired by la la refrains used in songs.

It then became shorthand for Los Angeles and the dream world created by the magic of celluloid there before becoming the name of a blockbuster movie in 2016. Jazz pianist Ryan Gosling and aspiring actress Emma Stone realise their dreams of stardom in La La Land.

The rest of us secretly wish that we had a place like that where we can forget our worries, dream of better days and join in the chorus of la las. Blue skies and clandy floss skies. This is your passport to a paradise lost..

Hour One

Underworld – Caliban’s Dream (Isles Of Wonder: Music for the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 2012)

La Ragazza 77(Ambra Borelli) – Il Paradiso Della Vito (Single 1968)

Amen Corner – (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice (Farewell to the Real Magnificent Seven 1969)

The Rokes – Piangi Con Me (Single 1966)

The Grassroots – Let’s Live for Today (Let’s Live for Today 1967)

Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) the Reaper (Agents of Fortune 1976)

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) – The Breakfast Club Soundtrack 1985)

Tears for Fears – Head Over Heels (Songs from the Big Chair 1985)

Jason Mraz – Everything is Sound (La la la) (Love is a Four Letter Word 2012)

Michael Kiwanuka – You Ain’t the Problem (Kiwanuka 2019)

The Fugees – Killing Me Softly with His Song (The Score 1996)

Stevie Nicks – Stand Back (Disco Purrfection Version The Wild Heart 1983)

Hour Two

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl (Blowin’ Your Mind! 1967)

Snoop Lion – La la la (Reincarnated 2012)

Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith – La la la (Hotel Cabana 2013)

The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More (Now and Then 1973)

Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour (My Cherie Amour 1969)

Kandace Springs – Killing me Softly with his Song (The Women who Raised Me 2020)

Haley Heynderickx – Oom Sha La La (I Need to Start a Garden 2017)

Myles Kennedy – Love Can Only Head (Eye of the Tiger 2018)

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Killing Me Softly with His Song (Killing Me Softly 1973)

Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You (Perfect Angel 1974)

Cat Stevens – Lady D’Arbanville (Mona Bone Jakon 1970)

Tears for Fears – Suffer the Children (The Hurting 1981)

Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain 1984) (Orchestral Version 2013) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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Lost Immortals Ep 360 15.2.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 360 Sunday 15th Feb 26 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

A Feather on the Breath of God

For the first time the original sample on The Beloved’s The Sun Rising and Orbital’s Belfast is given equal billing on a new mix. The Impossible Dream shouted ecstatically by a Glaswegian showman called Alex. Tull’s My God given a car wash. Mano Negra and a Rebel Spell, The Wedding Present, Sharon Jones and Mavis Staples. A line-up made in Heaven.

Hour One
The Wedding Present – Brassneck (Original version) (Bizarro 1989)
Lilys – Dandy (A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns 1994)
Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now (The Revolution Starts Now, 2004)
Protomen – Buried in the Red (Act III: This City Made Us, 2026)
Pigeon – Miami (Single, 2026)
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – Money Honey / The Impossible Dream (The Impossible Dream 1974)
The Format – The First Single (The Format, 2002)
Jethro Tull – My God (Steve Wilson Stereo Mix) (Aqualung 1970)
Mano Negra – The Rebel Spell (Puta’s Fever 2017)
Alice Costelloe – How Can I (Move On With the Year, 2026)
The Beta Band – Troubles (Heroes to Zeros, 2018)
Hour Two
Silver Jews – Random Rules (American Water Wig 1998)
Arnaldo Antunes – Sentado à Beira do Caminho (Sentado à beira do caminho, 2023)
Pokey LaFarge – To Love or Be Alone (In The Blossom of Their Shade, 2021)
Mavis Staples – Down in Mississippi (We’ll Never Turn Back, 2007)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – We Get Along (Give the People What They Want, 2013)
Hikaru Utada – First Love (First Love 1999)
João Gilberto – Bésame Mucho (Kiss me a Lot) (En México / Acapulco 1970)
Allman Brown – Palms (ft. Liz Lawrence) (1000 Years 2017)
Mix: Gothic Voices ft Emily Van Evera – O Euchan (A Feather on the Breath of God 1985)
The Beloved – The Sun Rising (Happiness 1989)
Orbital – Belfast (Orbital 1991)
Extended:
Dan Fogelberg – Part of the Plan (Souvenirs, 1974)
Phil Ochs — When I’m Gone (Phil Ochs In Concert, 1966)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 264 15.2.26 New Voices with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 264     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 15th February 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

New Voices

There’s a long line of new music outside the front door, waiting to be invited in. Most of the tracks on the show this week are new and unknown.  They gather bedraggled but hopeful,  no PR machines, no chart glory, no media jamboree that usually accompanies a big release. But this is where the real excitement happens. Without the expensive studios, without the big name producers, no fanfare. Just talent.

Hour One

Moncrieff – Anyone’s Guess (Maybe It’s Fine 2025)

Fool Nelson – Bad Dreams (Bad Dreams Single 2026)

Riley Marsh – Castle Made of Sand (Castle Made of Sand Single 2026)

Keo – Young (Young Single 2026)

Bleachers – You and Forever (You and Forever Single 2026)

Orlando – I Love You Too Much (Single 2026)

Shale – Made with Love (Made with Love Single 2026)

In Color – Headlights (Headlights Single 2026)

Sofia & the Antoinettes – Hi My Love (Hi My Love Single 2026)

Sea Lemon – Cynical (Diving for a Prize 2025)

Ellur – Dream of Mine (Dream of Mine Single 2026)

Heidi Curtis – Undone (Undone Single 2026)

The Lottery Winners – Your Last Song (KOKO 2025)

Hour Two

Paul’s Daughter – Things I Said to You (Things I Said to You Single 2026)

Flunk – Blind My Mind (Morning Star 2004)

Blood Orange (ft Caroline Polachek) – The Train (Kings Cross)  (Essex Honey 2025)

The Dark Flowers ft Shelley Poole – When Stars Fall (When Stars Fall EP 2012)

The Cords – When You Said Goodbye (Single 2025)

Esha Tewari – Muse (What Makes a Girl 2026)

Yazmin Lacey – No Promises (Teal Dreams 2025)

Ugly – Next To Die (Next to Die Single 2026)

Cinder Well – The Wise Man’s Song (Theme from Small Prophets 2026)

Hannah Peel – Just Like Heaven (Theme from Rogue Agent 2022)

Della – How Do I?  (How Do I? Single 2026)

Stars – If I Could (If I Could Single 2026)

Guest in the Car – This is How (This is How Single 2026)

Lost Immortals Ep 359 Sunday 8.2.26 5-7pm with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 359⁠ Sun 8th Feb 26 5-7pm⁠

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples⁠

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM⁠

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen⁠

Strange American Dream⁠

A triptych of songs about the vagaries of the US. Interestingly, none of them current. Plus two very diferent covers of Motown songs, a Stones cover by The Who and a Smiths cover from Placebo. The Ex-Bombers In Music City. Nothing is what it seems..

Hour One

Anne McCue – Stupid (on a Lonely Afternoon) (Roll 2004)

Placebo  – Big Mouth Strikes Again (Covers 2016)

The Ex-Bombers – In Music City (Single 2026)

The Radio Dept. – Pulling our Weight (Marie Antoinette OST 2006)

DBR – Unacceptable (Unbearable, 2026)

PJ Harvey – Man-Size (Rid of Me, 1993)

The Kinks – Low Budget (Low Budget, 1979)

The Who – Under My Thumb (Single 1967)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Time to Move On (2014 remaster) (Wildflowers – and the rest 1994)

Kit Sebastian – Faust (New Internationale, 2024)

Lake Street Dive – I Want You Back (Fun Machine EP, 2012)

Hour Two

Lee Michaels – Can I Get a Witness (5th 1971)

Phoebe Snow – Good Times (Phoebe Snow, 1974)

Lee Dorsey – Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On) (Single, 1969)

Grant Lee Buffalo – America Snoring (Fuzzy 1993)

James “Blood” Ulmer – Are You Glad To Be In America? (Odyssey, 1983)

Rayland Baxter – Strange American Dream (Wide Awake 2018)

Lorien Testard feat Alice Duport-Percier – Lumière (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Original Soundtrack), 2025)

Strawbs – You And I (When We Were Young) (Ghosts 1975)

Kathryn Calder – One Two Three (Bright and Vivid, 2011)

Courtney Marie Andrews – Monkey on a Chain (No One’s Slate is Clean, 2011)

Villagers – Everything I Have is Yours (Darling Arithmetic 2015)

Chris Isaak – Don’t Get So Down On Yourself  (Speak Of The Devil 1998)

Extended

Peter Gabriel – Been Undone (Bright-Side Mix) (i/o 2026)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 263 8.2.26 3-5pm Always with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 263     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 8th February 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Always

Some words carry a kind of gravitational pull, and ‘always’ is one of them. It’s a promise of devotion that stretches beyond the present. ‘Always’ is what we say when we want to reassure ourselves – or someone else.

It’s the promise we make at the altar, the hope that lingers after a goodbye, the ultimate ‘yes’ that we can offer another person.

Some songs celebrate devotion; others admit how fragile “always” can be. But each one holds a spark of hope – that love, in all its forms, can endure.

Hour One

Submotion Orchestra – Always (Finest Hour, 2011)

Underworld – Always Loved a Film (Barking, 2010)

Urban Soul – Always (Always, 1991)

Romy – Always Forever (Mid Air, 2023)

Robert Glasper Experiment ft. Lupe Fiasco – Always Shine (Black Radio, 2012)

Incognito – Always There (Inside Life 1991)

The Avalanches ft. Blood Orange – We Will Always Love You (We Will Always Love You, 2020)

Barry Can’t Swim – Always Get Through to You (When Will We Land, 2023)

Equador & Bo Bruce – For Always (Bones of Man, 2016)

The Bluebells – Will She Always Be Waiting (Sisters 1984)

Jack Savoretti – Always on my Mind (Single 2017)

Hour Two

Thurston Moore – Always Something There to Remind Me (All Kinds of People: Love Burt Bacharach, 2010)

Chrissie Hynde – Always On My Mind (feat. Rufus Wainwright) (Chrissie and Pals, 2023)

The Others – Always Be Mine (Inward Parts, 2006)

The Jesus & Mary Chain – Sometimes Always (Stoned & Dethroned, 1994)

The Veronicas – Always (The Veronicas, 2014)

Coach Party – Always Been You (Killjoy, 2023)

Cub Sport – Always Got the Love (Live for Like A Version) (Jesus at the Gay Bar, 2023)

Alistair Griffin – Always No.1 (Ash Howes Remix) (Albion Sky, 2013)

Nadia Kadek – Always Almost Losing You (Always Almost Losing You, 2023)

Kate Voegele – Forever and Almost Always (A Fine Mess, 2009)

Ron Sexsmith Almost Always (Rareties 2003)

Ian Brown – Always Remember Me (My Way, 2009)

Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia – Always You (Always You, 2007)

Lost Immortals Ep 358 1.2.26 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 358

Originally broadcast on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 1.2.26 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples

Happy Man

Hour One
Sparklehorse – Happy Man (Memphis Version) (Distorted Ghost EP, 2000)
The Damned – Making Time (Not Like Everybody Else, 2026)
Pere Ubu – Final Solution (The Hearpen Singles 1976)
The Sound – New Dark Age (From the Lion’s Mouth 1981)
Ark – Sea of Life (Voyages, 1978)
Spicy Box – The Price of Freedom (Love & Revolution 2000)
Shamoniks · Martin Jones · Samiwel Humphreys – Nothing Changes (Nothing Changes 2026)
Nanuk – Embers (Embers Single 2024)
Purple Mountains – Storyline Fever (Purple Mountains, 2019)
Hour Two
Velocity Girl – Seven Seas (Single 1995)
Mobiles – Climbing Frame (Drowning In Berlin: The Best Of Mobiles, 2006)
Terry Reid – Superlungs, My Supergirl (Terry Reid 1969)
Midlake – Roscoe (The Trials of Van Occupanther, 2007)
Jeff Tweedy – Caught Up In the Past (Twilight Override, 2025)
Ralfi Pagan – El Hijo De Mamá (Ralfi Pagan, 1969)
José González – El Invento (Local Valley, 2021)
Bob Dylan – Masters of War (The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9, LP release, 1963)
Emily Smith – The Silver Tassie (Transatlantic Sessions 4 Live, 2009)
Graham Nash – Encore (This Path Tonight 2016)
Malinda – Edge of Night (Pippin’s Song) (Short extract 58”) (Original from Lord of the Rings OST 2022)
Marillion – Jigsaw (Fugazi 1984)
Extended
Parannoul – Beautiful World (To See the Next Part of the Dream, 2021)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 262 1.2.26 3-5pm You’ve Got a Friend on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 262     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 1st February 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

You’ve Got a Friend

Music can hold someone up when life gets heavy. It can step into the room like an old friend, sit beside you, and say the words you didn’t know you needed. Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” is a song that has travelled through time since 1971, carrying the same simple promise – you’re not alone.. Whether you’re listening from a place of strength or a place of struggle, today’s show is a reminder that even in the hardest times, someone, somewhere, is holding the other end of the line.

Hour One

Javine – You’ve got a Friend (Surrender 2003)

The Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy (He’s My Brother) (Hollies sing Hollies 1969 Special Edition)

Johnny Marr – Hi, Hello (Call The Comet 2018)

Dermot Kennedy – Outnumbered (Without Fear 2019)

Foy Vance – Burden (The Wild Swan 2016)

Alex Clare – Relax My Beloved (The Lateness Of The Hour 2011)

Rick Astley – Cry For Help (Free 1991)

Tom Chaplin – Quicksand (The Wave 2016)

Frances – Don’t Worry About Me (Things I’ve Never Said 2016)

Glen Campbell – Grow Old With Me (Meet Glen Campbell 2008)

The Killers – Life to Come (Wonderful Wonderful 2017)

Bruce Springsteen – You Lifted Me Up (Tracks II: The Lost Albums 2025)

Hour Two

Lauren Daigle – Rescue (Look Up Child 2018)

James Arthur – Avalanche (It’ll All Make Sense in the End 2021)

Sugarland – Shine The Light (The Incredible Machine 2010)

Jars of Clay – Shelter (The Shelter 2010)

Kodaline – Saving Grace (One Day at a Time 2020)

The Script – Arms Open (Freedom Child 2017)

Tori Amos – Pretty Good Year (Under The Pink 1994)

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Your Guardian Angel (Don’t You Fake It 2006)

Tom Odell – Don’t Cry, Put Your Head On My Shoulder (A Wonderful Life 2025)

Delirious? – It’s OK (Mezzamorphis 1999)

Carole King – You’ve Got a Friend (Tapestry 1970)

Lost Immortals Ep 357 25.1.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 357 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

This Sunday 25th Jan 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

She Ain’t Me

We used to grow up rebelling against or resembling our parents. Now the great schism has divided renters from owners, job seekers from job lifers, last hopers from last gaspers.. Why climb Everest? we asked and Edmund Hilary replied, ‘Because it’s there’. What will our children ask us? We couldn’t even turn great songs into hits..

Hour One


Public Service Broadcasting – Everest (Single, 2012)
Kim Gordon – Not Today (Play Me 2026)
The Stranglers / The Disciples of Spess – This Song Will Get Me Over You (Mix) (Unreleased 2014)
Citrus Citrus – Sushi Sushi (In the Belly of the Eternal Draw, 2025)
Teenage Fanclub – Can’t Feel My Soul (Songs From Northern Britain, 1997)
Brian May ft Eddie Van Halen – Starfleet (Single version) (Starfleet Sessions 1983)
Randy Newman – Gone Dead Train (Performance OST, 1970)
IDLES – Danny Nedelko (Joy as an Act of Resistance, 2018)
Grandaddy – AM 180 (Under the Western Freeway 1997)
Galaxie 500 – King of Spain (Today 1988)
Citay – Tugboat (Dream Get Together 2010)


Hour Two


James McMurtry – We Can’t Make It Here (Childish Things, 2005)
Carrie Rodriguez – She Ain’t Me (She Ain’t Me, 2011)
Romi Mayes – Eight More Days (Sweet Somethin’ Steady 2006)
Kim Richey – The Circus Song (Can’t Let Go) (Rise, 2002)
Bobby & The Midnites – Book Of Rules (Bobby & The Midnites, 1981)

Lyle Lovett – You Were Always There (My Baby Don’t Tolerate, 2003)
Tindersticks – Piano Song (Tindersticks 1993)
Enji – Eejiinhee Hairaar (Sonor, 2025)
Alan Stivell – The Foggy Dew (Again, 1993)
HAEVN feat. néomí – Till the Morning (Symphonic Version) (Live 2025)
Extended:
Brian May ft Eddie Van Halen – Starfleet (Complete version 8mins) (Starfleet Sessions 1983)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 261 25.1.26 Somewhere with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 261     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 25th January 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Somewhere

In the Deacon Blue song ‘Dignity’, “Bogie” a Glasgow council street secretly dreams of saving enough money to buy a boat named Dignity. He wants to sail up the west coast of Scotland, take holidays, and prove that achievement can come from persistence rather than luck. Proving that paradise doesn’t need to be up there – but it needs to be somewhere..

Hour One

Jeff Beck/Roy Stannard/Tom Waits – Somewhere

James – Beautiful Beaches (All the Colours of You 2021)

The Jam – In The City (In The City 1977)

Ride – Chelsea Girl (Ride EP 1990)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Stay with you (Let Love In 2006)

Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run (Born To Run 1975) (2024  Remaster)

Montrose – Bad Motor Scooter (Montrose 1973)

Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story (Every Picture Tells A Story 1971)

Deacon Blue – Dignity (Remastered 2005) (Raintown 1988)

Procol Harum A Rum Tale (Grand Hotel 1973)

Little Boots – Motorway (Nocturnes 2013)

Hour Two

Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San José (Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls 1968)

R. Dean Taylor – Indiana Wants Me (I Think, Therefore I Am 1970)

John Denver – Leavin’ on   a Jet Plane (Greatest Hits version 1973)

Glen Campbell – By the Time I Get to Phoenix (By the Time I Get to Phoenix 1967)

Young the Giant – Cough Syrup (Young the Giant 2011)

James Bay – Get Out While You Can (Hold Back The River 2015)

Van Morrison – Beside You (Astral Weeks 1968)

R.E.M. – Leaving New York (Around The Sun 2004)

The War On Drugs – Old Skin (I Don’t Live Here Anymore 2021)

The Airborne Toxic Event – Come On Out (Hollywood Park 2020)

Ethel Cain – A House In Nebraska (Preacher’s Daughter 2022)

Lost Immortals Ep 256 18.1.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 356⁠

This Sunday 18th Jan 5-7pm⁠

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples⁠

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM⁠

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen⁠

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I Don’t Want to Talk About It⁠

Danny Whitten’s song is the chanson du jour; plus Moby, Drugstore, Nubiyan Twist, Muireann Bradley, David Crosby, Minutemen and the brilliant Swell Season.

If this were customs, you’d be searched.⁠

Hour One


Miracle Legion – The Backyard (The Backyard EP, 1984)
The Dandy Warhols – Get Off (Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia 2000)
Minutemen – The Glory of Man (Double Nickels on the Dime 1984)
Moby – New Dawn Fades (Feeling So Real B Side 1994)
Drugstore – Fader (Drugstore 1995)
Flowers – Sorry (live) (Icehouse (30th Anniversary Edition), orig 1982)
The Stranglers – Who Wants the World (Single 1980)
Canned Heat – Poor Moon (Hallelujah, 1969. Remaster, 2005)
Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media – Funky Stuff (Funky Stuff, 1975)
Nubiyan Twist feat Bootie Brown – Red Herring (Chasing Shadows, 2026)
Jude Black – Dance of Defiance (Single 2025)

Hour Two

Muireann Bradley – Candyman (I Kept These Old Blues 2023)

Margaret Glasby ft James Bay – These Days (The Golden Heart Protector 2025)

Lauren O’Connell – Every Space (Quitters, 2012)

Crazy Horse (Danny Whitten) – I Don’t Want to Talk About It (Crazy Horse 1971)

David Crosby – Laughing (If Only I Could Remember My Name 1971)

Gretchen Peters – Souvenirs (Gretchen Peters 2000)

Lissie – Mountaintop Removal (Back to Forever 2013)

Bob Lind – Black Night (The Elusive Bob Lind 1966)

Warhaus – Everybody (Warhaus 2017)

The Swell Season (Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova) – Stuck In Reverse (Forward 2025)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 260 18.1.26 Just Say Yes with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 260     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 18th January 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Just Say Yes

Yes Man was a Danny Wallace book and a Jim Carrey film.

Danny Wallace’s memoir begins with a simple challenge: say “yes” to everything for an entire year.

The results are chaotic, hilarious, occasionally disastrous — but also life‑expanding.

The message isn’t blind positivity; it’s about breaking the gravitational pull of habit, fear, and inertia.

The film adaptation exaggerates the comedy, but the heart remains: saying “yes” opens doors you didn’t know existed. Saying yes as rebellion / Saying yes as awakening / Saying yes as messy, chaotic growth / Saying yes as connection / Saying yes as self‑permission / Saying yes as a way of stepping into your own life.

The possibility that yes doesn’t guarantee safety, but it does guarantee movement.

Saying yes doesn’t have to be a doorstop, it can be a door opening.

Hour One

Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes (Up to Now, 2009)

Alkaline Trio – Hell Yes (Remains, 2007)

Frightened Rabbit – Yes I Would (The Winter of Mixed Drinks, 2010)

Gang of Youths – Say Yes to Life (Go Farther in Lightness, 2017)

Tokyo Shoegazer – Missing (Missing 2020)

WhoMadeWho – Yes (Brighter, 2012)

Boy George – Yes We Can (Ordinary Alien, 2010)

Bel and Quinn – Say Yes (Fanm nan dife, 2023)

Johannesen – Yes (Single 2012)

Nujabes – Yes ft. Pase Rock (Spiritual State, 2011)

Iyeoka – Say Yes (Say Yes, 2010)

Hour Two

The Shins – So Says I (Chutes Too Narrow, 2003)

The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?? (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)

Joni Mitchell – All I Want (Blue, 1971)

Jane Birkin – Yesterday, Yes A Day (Madame Claude OST, 1977)

Lana Del Rey – Say Yes to Heaven (Original Version) (Single 2023)

Radiohead – Yes I Am (B‑side My Iron Lung, 1994)

Floetry – Say Yes (Floetic, 2002)

Tame Impala – Yes I’m Changing (Currents, 2015)

Diana Vickers – Just Say Yes (Cover of Snow Patrol, 2010)

Kate Bush – The Sensual World (The Sensual World 1989)

The Swell Season – The Answer is Yes (Single 202