The Whole Nine Yards Ep 214 2.3.25 Embraced with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 214

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 2nd March 2025 3-5pm

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

Embraced

For a century now, contemporary music has reflected the pressing issues of its time. In recent years, the conversation on diversity and inclusion has descended on global hot spots such as Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As society grapples with issues of racial, gender, and cultural equality, artists have tried to highlight these struggles and promote a more inclusive world. Music transcends barriers and is colour-blind and democratic. Through lyrics that challenge, genre-blending collaborations, or simply being seen and heard, music is constantly putting the issues on stage and increasing the volume. Come and listen – and feel included, and embraced

Hour One

Warumpi Band – Blackfella/Whitefella (Big Name, No Blankets 1985)

Coloured Stone – Black Boy (Koonibba Rock 1984)

Jen Cloher – Analysis Paralysis (Jen Cloher 2017)

Courtney Barnett – Pickles from the Jar (Single 2017)

Stereo MCs – Connected (Connected 1992)

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – Living Like a Refugee (Living Like a Refugee 2006)

Nuyorican Soul – It’s Alright, I Feel It (Nuyorican Soul 1997)

Ce Ce Peniston – Finally (12” Choice Mix) (Finally 1992)

Transglobal Underground – Temple Head (Dream of a 100 Nations 1993)

Arrested Development – People Everyday (3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…1992)

Hour Two

Lalah Hathaway ft Common – Young, Gifted & Black (Nina Revisited: A Tribute to Nina Simone 2015)

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Be Real Black For Me (Single 1972)

Mo’Ju – Native Tongue ft Pasefika Choir (Native Tongue 2018)

Manu Chao – Clandestino (Clandestino 1998)

Christine Anu – Island Home (Stylin’ Up 1995)

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – What I Am (Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars 1988)

Julieta Venegas – Mujeres (Single 2020)

Joe Purdy – Maybe We’ll all get along one day  (Who Will Be Next? 2016)

Aradhna – Brown Girl (Brown Girl Single 2016)

Mickey Guyton – Black Like Me (Bridges EP 2020)

Mr Probz – Waves (original version) (Waves Single 2013)

Nahko And Medicine For The People (feat. Xiuhtezcatl) – Dear Brother (Take Your Power Back 2020)

Jon Batiste – What a Wonderful World ft The National Philharmonic Orchestra (Live 2021)

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

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)

Lost Immortals Ep 309 23.2.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 309 Sunday 23rd Feb 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen)

For the Birds

A carefully confected mix of old and new – with the reggae flavour of Busboys and Inner Circle complemented by the highlife of S.E. Rogie; Chaka Khan visiting the Great American Songbook; Brighton’s Passenger and Hasting’s ne’er- do-wells, Hotwax along with the controversial Brummies, Big Special with ‘For the Birds’ – the only playable track on the latest album. Plus new music from Sam Fender and a beautiful gospel lament from Angelique Kidjo. Not to mention ‘The Other Two’ from New Order. If this was a recipe, your grannie would have taken it with her to the grave..

Hour One


Steve Earle – The Revolution Starts Now (The Revolution Starts Now 2004)
HotWax – One More Reason (Hot Shock, 2024)
Theatre of Hate – Do You Believe in the West World (Westword, 1982)
Andy Bell – Apple Green UFO (Pinball Wanderer 2025)
April March – Chick Habit (Chick Habit EP 1995) (Death Proof OST 2007)
The Other Two – Tasty Fish (The Other Two and You, 1993)
The Subdudes – Why Do You Hurt Me So (Primitive Streak, 1996)
Lori McKenna – Never Die Young (Pieces of Me, 2001)
Chris Smithers – All About the Bones (All About the Bones 2024)
The Busboys – Minimum Wage (Minimum Wage Rock n’ Roll 1980)
Inner Circle – We a’ Rockers (Rockers OST 1978)

Hour Two

Angélique Kidjo – Jerusalema (Jerusalema, 2024)
Mimi Gilbert – Thud (Single, 2012)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – This Train (The Authorized Sister Rosetta Tharpe Collection / Single 1939)
S.E. Rogie – Do Me Justice (The 60s’ Sounds of S.E. Rogie, Vol 1 (1986)
Chaka Khan – My Funny Valentine (OST Waiting to Exhale, 1995)
Passenger – Everything (Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted, 2016)
Ruth Moody – Already Free (Wanderer 2024)
The Hanseroth Twins – Remember Me (Vera 2024)
Sam Fender – Remember My Name (Remember my Name 2025)
Big Special – For The Birds (Post-industrial Hometown Blues 2024)
Celine Dessburg – Сэлэнгэ “Selenge” (Single, 2025)
Extended
King Sunny Ade & His African Beats – Me Le Se (Live on KEXP 2009 / Originally on Aura 1984) Rocky Votolato – Texas Scorpion (The Outlaw Blues) (Wild Roots, 2022) Thee Sacred Souls – Losing Side Of Love (Got a Story to Tell, 2024)

Lost Immortals Ep 308 16.2.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 308 Sun 16th Feb 25 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

A Touch of Grey

Where else would you get Rhye, James Blake, Marlena Shaw, The Doors, Dead Boys, Curve, Tom Waits, Benjamin Zephaniah and The Grateful Dead on the same bill? Music beyond boundaries.

Hour One

1. Divine Fits – Ain’t That The Way (Ain’t That The Way / Chained To Love, double A-side

2013)

2. Chuck Prophet – Credit (Homemade Blood 1997)

3. The Doors – Land Ho! (Morrison Hotel, 1970)

4. The Empty Page – What Happens Now? (Imploding, 2024)

5. Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer (Young Loud and Snotty, 1977)

6. Curve – Frozen (Frozen EP, 1991)

7. Bachelorette – Her Rotating Head (My Electric Family 2009)

8. Bel Canto – White-out Conditions (White-out Conditions 1988)

9. Josh White – House of the Rising Sun (Strange Fruit 1949)

10. Tom Waits – Little Drop of Poison (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (Remastered)

2006)

11. Marlena Shaw – Liberation Conversation (The Spice of Life 1969)

Hour Two

1. Grateful Dead – A Touch of Grey (In The Dark 1987)

2. Seth Lakeman ft Wildwood Kin – Silence Reigns (Ballads of the Broken Few, 2016)

3. Benjamin Zephaniah – De Children Future (Rasta, 1982)

4. Gregory Porter – Liquid Spirit (Liquid Spirit, 2013)

5. Langhorne Slim – LIfe’s a Bell (The Spirit Moves, 2015)

6. Joshua Hyslop – In Deepest Blue (In Deepest Blue, 2016)

7. Jim Lauderdale – Brave One (Hope 2021)

8. Josh Ritter – Sawgrass (Spectral Lines 2023)

9. Rhye ft Olafur Arnolds – Patience (Spirit, 2019)

10. James Blake – Limit To Your Love (James Blake 2011)

11. Alec Benjamin – Let Me Down Slowly ft Alessia Cara (Narrated for You 2018)

Extended

Basement – March (I Wish I Could Stay Here, 2011)

Rodrigo Y Gabriella + C.U.B.A. – IxTar (Ixtapa (feat. Anoushka Shankar on Sitar) (Area 52 2012)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 212 16.2.25 Songs in the Raw with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 212

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 16th February 2025 3-5pm

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

Songs in the Raw

The most impactful songs often emerge from a place of vulnerability, tapping into the artist’s raw emotions and personal experiences. When songwriters embrace their flaws, they create music that hits the listener hard, forging an emotional connection beyond mere entertainment. For instance, Brandon Flowers of The Killers channelled his trauma into the iconic song “Mr. Brightside,” after witnessing his girlfriend with another man in a Las Vegas bar. Honesty like this not only allows artists to express their true feelings but takes their audience with them, relieved that they are not the only ones to experience trauma. Vulnerability in music is a powerful catalyst for raw honesty, making songs relatable and moving. However, raw doesn’t mean downbeat, as you will hear..

Hour One

The Strokes – Hard to Explain (Is This It? 2001)

The Killers – Mr Brightside (Hot Fuss 2004)

Selena Gomez – Vulnerable (Rare 2020)

Hallan – Lilian’s Regret (Single 2025)

GiantKillers – In The End (Single 1996)

Menswear – Being Brave (Nuisance 1996)

Eric Carmen – All By Myself (Eric Carmen 1975)

America – I need You (America 1971)

Perfume Genius – I Can’t Help Falling in Love (Prada Ad 2016 / Red, White, Royal Blue OST 2016)

Shawn Mendes – In My Blood (Shawn Mendes 2018)

Floy Joy – Weak in the Presence of Beauty (Weak in the Presence of Beauty 1986)

Alison Moyet – Such Small Ale (Key 2024)

Hour Two

Belinda Carlisle – I Get Weak (Heaven On Earth 1987)

The National – Slow Show (The Boxer 2007)

Jess Glynne – Insecurities (Always Be Yours 2018)

Jamie Lawson – Wasn’t Expecting That (Single 2011 / Jamie Lawson 2015)

The Milk Carton Kids – Michigan (Prologue 2011)

Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Follow You Into the Dark (Plans 2005)

Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can (I Speak Because I Can 2010)

The Decemberists – January Hymn (The King is Dead 2011)

The Smiths – Asleep (The Queen is Dead 1985)

Lara Candy – Lost Time (Plus1 Compilation 2025)

Parabola West – While the Watchman Sleeps  (The Stars will Light the Way 2022)

Joan Armatrading – The Weakness In Me (Walk Under Ladders 1981)

Sia – Jesus Wept (This is Acting – Deluxe 2016)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 211 9.2.25 Sad and Beautiful Songs (tracks of our tears) with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 211

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 9th February 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Sad & Beautiful

Some of the most beautiful songs are also the saddest. This week I’ve tried to find songs that create beauty out of tragedy. Here are the tracks of our tears.

Hour One

The Cure – Just Like Heaven (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987)

The Psychedelic Furs – The Ghost in You (Mirror Moves 1984)

Conjure One ft Sinead O’Connor – Tears from the Moon (Conjure One 2002)

Kelly Clarkson – Fake Plastic Trees (Kellyoke 2022)

Blind Melon – No Rain (Blind Melon 1992)

Evanescence – My Immortal (Fallen 2003)

Band of Horses – The Funeral (Everything All the Time 2006)

Placebo – Breathe Underwater (Battle for the Sun – Redux 2009)

The Smiths – The Boy with a Thorn in his Side (The Queen is Dead 1985)

Jeff Buckley – I Know It’s Over (You and I 2007)

The Antlers – Epilogue (Hospice 2009)

Hour Two

Alice in Chains – Nutshell (Jar of Flies 1994)

Lorde – Liability (Melodrama 2017)

Taylor Swift – All Too Well (Red 2012)

Spoon – Ghost of You Lingers (They Want My Soul 2014)

Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” – (Stranger in the Alps, 2017)

Nick Drake – Pink Moon (Pink Moon 1972)

Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (Happier Than Ever 2021)

The Wonder Years – Flowers Where Your Face Should Be (Sister Cities 2018)

Dave Gahan & the Soulsavers – Lilac Wine (Imposter 2021)

Jeff Beck ft Imelda May – Lilac Wine (Emotion & Commotion 2010)

Joni Mitchell – A Case of You (Both Sides Now 2000)

Lost Immortals Ep 307 9.2.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS
Ep 307 9.2.25 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples
on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM


Songs that have been forgotten and not foreseen – but totally relevant to today.

Lost Immortals Ep 306 2.2.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 306 Sunday 2nd Feb 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Monster Truck

Three trucking tracks, ‘Calum’s Dan’s Van’, ‘Monster Truck’ and ‘El Camino’ rev this show out of the pit this week in greasy but exhilarating fashion. Zeros threaten ‘Don’t push me around’; Scowl tell us ‘we’re not in Hell, but not in Heaven’ either. Propagandhi point out that ‘Today’s Empires are tomorrow’s ashes’ and The Radio Dept. calmly inform us that ‘Heaven’s on fire’. The original Camera Obscure sing about ‘Destitution’. The Delines deliver a ‘Left hook like Frazier’. But it’s OK, Lynn Miles reassures us that it’s hockey night in Canada. The world can rest easy.

Hour One

  1. Peat & Diesel – Calum Dan’s Van (Light My Byre 2020)
  2. Split Dogs – Monster Truck (Here to Destroy 2025)
  3. Elizabeth Cook – El Camino (Welder, 2010)
  4. Zeros – Don’t Push Me Around (Don’t Push Me Around, 1977)
  5. Scowl – Not Hell, Not Heaven (Are We All Angels 2025)
  6. Propagandhi – Today’s Empires, Tomorrows Ashes (Today’s Empires, Tomorrows Ashes, 2001)
  7. Kosheen – Not Enough Love (Damage 2007)
  8. Blondshell – T&A (If You Asked For A Picture, 2025 May)
  9. Vetusta Morla – La Deriva (La Deriva, 2014)
  10. Anders Osborne – Let It Go (Peace, 2013)
    Hour Two
  11. The Radio Dept. – Heaven’s on Fire (Clinging to a Scheme 2010)
  12. The Delines – Left Hook Like Frazier (Mr Luck & Ms Doom 2025)
  13. Camera Obscura – Destitution (Single only 1983 – from 7” RS)
  14. Saya Gray – H.B.W (Saya, 2025 Feb – debut LP)
  15. Brett Dennen – San Francisco (Hope For The Hopeless, 2009)
  16. The Breath – Let The Cards Fall (Let The Cards Fall, 2018)
  17. Ibrahim Maalouf – Love Anthem (Trumpets of Michel-Ange, 2024)
  18. Gregg Kofi Brown – Skyflower ft Stanley Jordan (Together as One 2003)
  19. Sylvie Vartan – La Maritza (Une vie en musique, 2015. Orig. La Maritza, 1968)
  20. Lynn Miles – It’s Hockey Night in Canada (Chalk This One up to the Moon, 1991)
  21. Extended
    The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come Today (Time Has Come Today, 1967)
    Joy Crookes – Pass the Salt ft Vince Staples (New album out 2025)

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

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)

Lost Immortals Ep 305 26.1.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 305 26.1.25 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Faded Gloryville

The songs used to be fresh, beautiful pop symphonies. Then the parts disappeared, the calls stopped and they slipped into retirement. Our listeners and Lost Immortals Facebook members have reached into their record collections, lofts, attics and garages to find tracks that badly, desperately want to make a comeback.

Hour One


Lambrini Girls – No Homo (Who Let the Dogs Out 2025)
Clipping – Change the Channel (Dead Channel Sky 2025)
The Treatment – Emergency (Running With the Dogs, 2013)
Queens of the Stone Age – Everybody Knows That You Are Insane (Lullabies to Paralyze, 2005)
Stiltskin – America (The Mind’s Eye, 1994)
Caesars – Jerk It Out (Love for the Streets 2002)
Lucy Dacus – Ankles (Forever is a Feeling, 2025)
Perfume Genius – It’s a Mirror (Glory 2025)
Caitlin Cary – Thick Walls Down (While You Were Away 2002)
Throwing Muses – Summer of Love (Moonlight Concessions, 2025)
Emitt Rhodes – Fresh As A Daisy (Emitt Rhodes, 1970)

Hour Two


My Morning Jacket – Time Waited (Is 2025)
Camera Obscura – I Need All The Friends I Can Get (Let’s Get Out of This Country 2006)
Black Pumas – More Than a Love Song (Chronicles of a Diamond, 2023)
Tom Misch & Loyle Carner – Colourblind (Six Songs EP 2024)
Morcheeba – Call For Love (Single 2005)
Celeste – Both Sides of the Moon (Live) (Not Your Muse, 2018)
Vinicio Capossela – Si è spento il sole (L’indispensabile 2005)
Lindi Ortega – Faded Gloryville (Faded Gloryville, 2015)
Waxahatchee – Crowbar (Tiger’s Blood 2024)
Keren Ann – Jardin d’hiver (La Biographie de Luka Philipsen 2000)


David Lynch & Lykke Li – I’m Waiting Here (The Big Dream, 2013)
Extended
The Saw Doctors – I Useta Lover (If This Is Rock and Roll, I Want My Old Job Back, 1991)