The Whole Nine Yards Ep 241 7.9.25 The Quiet Riot on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 241     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 7th September 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

The Quiet Riot

Not all secrets are shadowy whispers or locked-away regrets. Some are quiet dreams, tucked beneath the surface, waiting for the right moment to bloom. The Quiet Riot is a sonic celebration of those hidden hopes – the confessions, the coded lyrics, the unspoken longings – that pulse beneath the noise. Because sometimes, the things we don’t say out loud are the very things that guide us toward joy, connection, and unexpected hope. This is where silence gets loud, and secrets sing.

Hour One

De La Soul – Can U Keep a Secret (3 Feet High and Rising 1989)

PinkPantheress – Illegal (Fancy That 2025)

The Ataris – In this Diary (So Long, Astoria 2003)

The All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret (Move Along 2005)

Artemas – Dirty Little Secret (Yustyna 2024)

Frightened Rabbit – Backyard Skulls (Pedestrian Verse 2013)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Name (A Boy Named Goo 1995)

Bloc Party – Secret (A Weekend in the City 2007)

Franz Ferdinand – Your Diary (You Could Have it so Much Better (Japanese Edition and B Side of Do You Want To 2005)

Semisonic – Secret Smile (Feeling Strangely Fine 1999)

Clarkesville – Secret File (The Half Chapter 2003)

Nada Surf – What is your Secret (The Weight is a Gift 2005)

Aimee Mann – Voices Carry (Acoustic 2013)

Gretchen Peters – The Secret of Life (The Secret of Life 1996)

Hour Two

Swansway – Club Secrets (The Fugitive Kind 1984)

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

Swing Out Sister – Secret Love (You’re Invisible) (Beautiful Mess 2008)

Nessa Barrett – Dirty Little Secret (Aftercare 2024)

Fiat Lux – Secrets (Hired History 1984)

The Boxer Rebellion – Secret Handshake (The Cold Still 2011)

Elvis Costello – You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way (Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool OST 2017)

Danielle Bradbery – Human Diary (I Don’t Believe We’ve Met 2017)

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Keep Your Secrets Close (They Only Wanted Your Soul 2022)

Tom Bertram – The Secret (Single 2018)

Spearmint – The Most Famous Secret Agent in the World (This Candle is For You 2023)

Tears for Fears – Secret World (Everybody Loves a Happy Ending 2004)

Lost Immortals Ep 336 31.8.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 336 Sun 31st Aug 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Wolf City

Wolves dressed as wolves this week with The Cramps, The Beths, Penny & the Pits, Spoon – and some lambs for shearing: Leddra Chapman, Brighton’s Dubarrys; Zara McFarlane and Ibibio Sound Machine. Fierce but fun..

Hour One


The Beths – Head in the Clouds (Experts in a Dying Field 2022)
The Cramps – The Way I Walk (Off The Bone 1983)
Sophie Perez – Level Head (Level Head Single 2024)
Penny and the Pits – Pool Party (Liquid Compactor, 2025)
Spoon – Guess I’m Fallin’ in Love (Single 2025)
Bedhead – Bedside Table (What Fun Life Was 1993)
The New Year – Recent History (Snow 2017)
Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) – Behind the Mask (remastered) (Solid State Survivor 1979)
Burrrn – Passing Rain (Without You 2024)
Héroes Del Silencio – La sirena varada (El Espíritu del Vino-20th Anniversary Edition, 1990 remastered 2012)
Amon Düül II – Wolf City (Wolf City 1972)

Hour Two

Ducks Ltd – Hollowed Out (Harm’s Way 2024)
Unflirt – Sea Song (Single 2025)
Calexico – Glowing Heart of the World (Instr) (The Black Light 1998) (Special 20th Anniversary Edition 2018
Cristina Quesada – Inside Your Dream (Dentro Al Tuo Sogno 2022)
The Dubarrys – Winter Grade (The Dubarrys EP 2014)
The Mountain Goats – You or Your Memory (The Sunset Tree, 2005)
Leddra Chapman – Worthy (Telling Tales 2014)
Ibibio Sound Machine – Got to Be Who U Are (Pull the Rope, 2024)
Zara McFarlane – Peace Begins Within (Arise, 2017)
Majical Cloudz – Downtown (Are You Alone 2015)
Luke Thompson – The Trials & Tribulations of Adam & his Seed (The Trials & Tribulations of Adam & his Seed 2021)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 240 31.8.25 Good Nights. Better Days. with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 240

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 31st August 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Good Nights. Better Days.

Positive words in songs act like emotional scaffolding, holding us up when the ground shakes. They don’t just reflect our emotions – they reshape them. Music has the power to convert pain to purpose, chaos into calling, and endings into new beginnings.

Hour One

Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days (Let Love In 2006)

Liam Gallagher – Better Days (C’mon You Know 2022)

Annie Lennox – Little Bird (Diva 1992)

Richard Ashcroft – Lovin’ You (Lovin’ You 2025)

Chris Simmons – The Navigators (Single 2025)

Blossom Dearie – I Like Myself (Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green 1959)

Kate Davis – I Like Myself (Trophy 2019)

Kesha – Rainbow (clean) (Rainbow 2017)

Joss Stone – Right To Be Wrong (Mind, Body & Soul 2004)

Teddy Brown – Walk The World Away (Trojan Carnival Box Set 1971)

Cast – Walkaway (All Change 1995)

Dionne Warwick – Don’t Make Me Over (Presenting Dionne Warwick 1962)

Firefall – Just Remember I Love You (Luna Sea 1977)

Hour Two

Dermott Kennedy – Better Days (Sonder 2021)

Cat Power (featuring Lana Del Rey) – Woman (Wanderer 2018)

Pete Murray – Better Days (Pete’s Version) (Better Days Single 2025)

Noah Kahan – Everywhere, Everything (Stick Season 2022)

Julia Stone (featuring Matt Berninger) – We All Have (Sixty Summers 2021)

Tom Misch – Better Days (Six Songs EP 2024)

Part-Time Friends – Better Days (Fire EP 2019)

Matteo Bocelli – Chasing Stars (Matteo 2023)

Tracy Bonham – Just Perfect (Bridget Jones’s Diary soundtrack 2001)

Coldplay – Everyday Life (Everyday Life 2019)

Robbie Williams – Eternity (B Side Somethin’ Stupid / Greatest Hits 2000)

Alicia Keys – Good Job (Alicia 2020)

Eurythmics – When The Day Goes Down (We Too Are One 1989)

Lost Immortals Ep 335 24.8.25 with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 335 Sunday 24th August 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

White Glove Test

Matt’s away this week so Roy is spinning the discs solo. Look out for retrospectives on Phillip C Lithman and Peet Coombes – forgotten heroes of English rock ‘n roll plus a big band James Brown – and the International Jetsetters – arguably better than JAMC, the band that hatched them..

Hour One

The Endtables – White Glove Test (Single, 1989. Re-release The Endtables, 2010)

The Charlatans – We Are Love (The Charlatans 2025)

Rollins Band – The End Of Something (Come in and Burn, 1997)

Future Nostalgia – Biltur (Mellow, 2025)

Farm – Sunshine in My Window (Farm, 1971)

Great Grandpa – Doom (Doom 2024)

Hiss Golden Messenger – When the Wall Comes Down (Hallelujah Anyhow 2017)

Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers – Desert Island Woman (Bongos Over Balham 1974)

Snakefinger (Phil Lithman) – Move (Night of Desirable Objects 1986)

The Residents – Kaw-Liga (Stars & Hank Forever, 1986)

Club Foot Orchestra – Hip Hopi (Wild Beasts, 1986)

Bill Callahan – The Sing (Dream River, 2013)

Hour Two

The Sloe Gin Fizz – Black Heart Baby (Sloe Gin Fizz 2021)

Bruce Cockburn – Colin Went Down To The Water (O Sun O Moon, 2023)

St Paul & The Broken Bones – Fall Moon (St Paul & The Broken Bones 2025)

James Brown – That’s My Desire (Soul on Top, 1970)

Teed – Desire (Desire/The Echo Single 2025)

The Catch – Black Blood (B Side of Borderline 1977)

The Tourists – Blind Among The Flowers (The Tourists 1979)

Yazmin Lacey – Two Steps (Teal Dreams, out soon 2025)

Hugo Largo – Hot Day (Mettle, 1989)

Cheikh Lô – Baba Moussa (Maame 2025)

Caitlin Canty – Shoot Trouble (Golden Hour, 2011)

Bears Den – Elysium (Islands 2014)

International Jetsetters – Never Slows Down (Heart is Black 2008)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 239 24.8.25 Arc (mixtape of a day in Brighton) with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 239     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 24th August 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Arc (mixtape of a day in Brighton)

This week we’re trying something a little different. The show will be a journey through a day in Brighton for a couple (Jane and Seb) who have been apart for 30 years (as in the Mixtape book and mini-series by Jane Sanderson) and keep in touch by exchanging Spotify songs from their youthful romance. Do they still feel the same way?

Hour One

Pulp – Sunrise (We Love Life, 2001)

Cockney Rebel – Sebastian (DJ Mix) (The Human Menagerie 1973)

Beth Orton – Love Like Laughter (Central Reservation, 1999)

The Clientele – Reflections After Jane (Suburban Light, 2000)

Gilbert Bécaud – Je reviens te chercher (Romain Drouet & Jean Flambert Remix) (Je Reviens Te Chercher (What’s the good of saying goodbye?) 1967 / remix 2023)

Nick Drake – Northern Skies (Bryter Layter 1970)

Saint Etienne – Avenue (original album version) (So Tough, 1993)

Doves – Catch The Sun (Lost Souls, 2000)

Benjamin Biolay – Comment est ta Peine? (How is your Pain?) (Grand Prix 2020)

Suede – The Wild Ones (Dog Man Star, 1994)

The Beths – Metal (Straight Line was a Lie 2025)

Hour Two

The Verve – History (A Northern Soul, 1995)

Strangelove – Beautiful Alone (Love and Other Demons, 1996)

The Sleeping Years – You and Me Against the World (We’re Becoming Islands one by One 2013)

The Auteurs – Showgirl (New Wave, 1993)

This Picture – Naked Rain (A Violent Impression 1991)

Friends Again – Sunkissed (Trapped and Unwrapped 1984)

Eve Hewson, Orén Kinlan – High Life (Flora & Son 2023)

Catchers – Beauty No 3 (Mute 1994)

Gay Dad – Dimstar (Leisure Noise 1999)

The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, 1990)

Gene – Sleep Well Tonight (Olympian, 1995)

Lost Immortals Ep 334 19.8.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 334 Sun 17th August 2025 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Hey You

The 80s slip into a Tardis and return with They Might Be Giants, Bernie Tormé, Black Flag, Flipper and Jonathan Richmond. To make up for it we have new songs from another female-led howitzer from Oz – the Belair Lip Bombs, the aromatic Perfume Genius and The Favors, who do us one with Ashe & Finneas Eilish. Served up with relish as always.

Hour One
Kokoroko – Da Du Dah (Tuff Times Never Last 2025)
Tony Allen, Yannis & The Yaw – Walk Through Fire [Live in Paris Sept 11, 2024] (Onstage, 2025)
Rei Harakami – Owari no Kisetsu (Lust 2005)
David y Celia – Loco De Amor (Crazy For Love) (OST Something Wild, 1986)
They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Flood, 1990)
Public Service Broadcasting – The Fun of It (The Last Flight, 2024)
The Earlies – The Ground We Walk On (The Enemy Chorus, 2007)
Bernie Tormé – Dirt (Live In The Studio, 2016. Orig. Blackheart)
Black Flag – TV Party (Repo Man OST, 1984)
Flipper – Way of the World (Album: Generic Flipper 1982)
Boy Harsher – Burn it Down (Rework) (Burn it Down EP / Halloween Ends OST 2022)
Hour Two
The Belair Lip Bombs – Hey You (Again 2025)
Perfume Genius – It’s a Mirror (Glory 2025)
Jonathan Richmond & The Modern Lovers – Modern World (The Modern Lovers 1976)
Astral Jets – Unite & Transcend (First Thoughts 2025)
Savage Republic – Next to nothing (Tragic Figures, 1982)
Song Sung – Telling Tales (This Ascension is Ours 2020)
Chiara Civello – Va Beni Beni Cosi (Canzoni 2014)
Lake Ruth – Astral Voices (Hawking Radiation, 2025)
The Favors – Times Square Jesus (The Dream 2025)
Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human (We’re Only Human, 2025)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 238 Chartless (Non-Hits 2019-25 + bonus tracks) with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 238     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 17th August 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Chartless (Pt III 2019 – 2025 + rare bonus gems)

This week:  Chartless — the concluding chapter in our trilogy of musical misfits and near-hits. Following Uncharted and Beyond the Chart, this final instalment shines a spotlight on the best non-Top 30 tracks from 2019 to 2025. These are the songs that slipped past the algorithms, dodged the playlists, and danced just outside the spotlight. Plus a few bonus tracks from earlier years that we simply couldn’t leave behind. Music that was chartless – but never voiceless.

Tune in to discover what the charts missed but your ears won’t forget.

Hour One

The Beginning of the End – When She Made Me Promise (Funky Nassau 1970)

Labi Siffre – Watch me  (Watch Me single 1972)

Cado Belle – Stone’s Throw from Nowhere (Cado Belle 1976) 

John Martyn – One World (Couldn’t Love You More 1977) 

White & Torch – Parade  (Parade 12” 1982) 

Friends Again – State of Art (Trapped and Unwrapped  1984) 

Van Morrison – In The Garden (No Guru, No Method, No Teacher  1986)

Love and Money – Jocelyn Square (Strange Kind of Love 1988)   

Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream (Grand Prix 1995)

Iris Dement – When my Morning Comes Around  (The Way I Should 1996) 

Llama Farmers – Forgot to Breathe (Dead Letter Chorus 1997)

Hour Two

The Streets – Has it Come to This?  (Original Pirate Material 2001)

Camille – Gospel with No Lord (Music Hole 2008)  

British Sea Power  Canvey Island (Do You Like Rock Music? 2008)

Freya Ridings – You Mean the World to Me (Freya Ridings 2019)

Jez Gates – The Boy Who Found a Fossil (Single 2000)

The Coronas – Find the Water  (True Love Waits 2020)

Pink Pantheress Passion (To Hell With It 2021)

Wunderhorse – Teal (Cub 2022)

Baby Rose – Stop The Bleeding  (Through and Through 2023) 

Headache – The Pavement is my Pillow (The Head hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth 2023) 

Anohni & The Johnsons – It Must Change (My Back was a Bridge for You to Cross 2023) 

Bill Ryder Jones – If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Lechyd Da 2024) 

Ólafur Arnalds with Talos – A Dawning (A Dawning 2025) 

Lost Immortals Ep 333 broadcast Sunday 10.8.25 5-7pm with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS

Ep 333 with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sun 10th August 25 5-7pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Spy (In the house of love)

With Amyl and the Sniffers. Leaf Hound, 100 Watt Vipers, Animal Logic, Irish street urchins Gurriers – and OMD celebrating an old red telephone box in the Wirral, we do need a spy licensed to enjoy himself.

More deluxe music travelling anonymously on a downtown charabanc..

Hour One

1. You Over Me – There For You (Single, 2022)

2. Amyl & The Sniffers – Control (Amyl & The Sniffers 2019)

3. Magic Wands – Across the Water (Single, 2025)

4. Leaf Hound – Freelance Fiend (Growers Of Mushroom,1971)

5. 100 Watt Vipers – Aces High (Holy Water 2018)

6. Gary Clark Jr – Don’t Owe You a Thang (live) (Gary Clark Jr. Live, 2014)

7. Gurriers – Top of the Bill (Come and See, 2024)

8. Animal Logic – There’s Spy (in the house of Love) (Animal Logic, 1989)

9. Be-Bop Deluxe – Sleep That Burns (Sunburst Finish 1976)

10. OMD – Red Frame/White Light (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, remaster 2003)

11. Microdisney- Loftholdingswood (In the World EP 1985)

Hour Two

1. Allah-Las – Catalina (Allah-Las, 2012)

2. The Pale Fountains – Just a Girl (Pacific Street 1982)

3. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Lost in the Sunshine (Hana 2023)

4. Phoebe Hunt – New York (Shanti’s Shadow 2017)

5. Felt – Ballad of the Band (The Pictorial Jackson Review 1987)

6. Graham Nash – Prison Song ·(Wild Tales 1973)

7. Kim Richey – Angels’ Share (Thorn in my Heart, 2013)

8. Jolie Holland & The Grand Chandeliers – Little Birds (Pint of Blood 2011)

9. Ray LaMontagne – Empty (Till The Sun Turns Black, 2006)

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

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 237 10.8.25 Off The Chart: Best Non-hits 1995-2018 with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 237

Broadcast Sunday 10.8.25 3-5pm

Off The Charts – the best non-hits 1994-2018

Selected by Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

They’re mine – what are yours?

Hour One

1995 The Montrose Avenue / Where Do I Stand? / Thirty Days Out

1996 Mansun / Wide Open Space / Attack of the Grey Lantern

1997 The Candyskins Car Crash Sunday Morning Fever

1998 Rialto Monday Morning 5.19 Rialto

1999 Shack Comedy HMS Fable

2000 Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now Both Sides Now

2001 Cathy Burton Hollow Burn Out

2002 Alice Martineau If I Fall Daydream

2003 The Veils Guiding Light The Runway Found

2004 Tom Baxter Almost There Feather & Stone

2005 Nerina Pallot Learning to Breathe Fires

2006 The Guillemots We’re Here Through the Window Pane

Hour Two

2007 Bombay Bicycle Club Cancel On Me The Boy I Used to Be EP

2008 Chris Simmons She’s a Girl The Perils of Self Harm

2009 The Dykeenies Sound of the City Single

2010 Emily Baker Wait for You House of Cards

2011 Bethany Ash Our Secrets Demos

2012 Mull Historical Society The Lights City Awakenings

2013 Bo Bruce Save Me Before I Sleep

2014 Breton Closed Category War Room Stories

2015 This is the Kit Bashed Out Bashed Out

2016 Camp Claude All This Space Swimming Lessons

2017 Alison Moyet The Rarest Birds Other

2018 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Sister’s Jeans Hope Downs

Next Week

2019 Freya Hardings – You Mean the World to Me Freya Hardings

2020 Jez Gates The Boy Who Found a Fossil (Single)

2021 Pink Pantheress Passion To Hell With It

2022 Wunderhorse Teal Cub

2023 Anohni & The Johnsons – It Must Change My Back was a Bridge for

You to Cross

2024 Bill Ryder-Jones If Tomorrow Starts Without Me Lechyd Da

2025 Ólafur Arnalds with Talos A Dawning A Dawning

Lost Immortals Ep 332 3.8.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 332

Sunday 3rd August 2025 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Not like anybody else

We uncover a Kinks classic lost in 1966 and lost again in 1996. We play a sweet song by L’eclair, go down the pub with Brighton folk rockers Noble Jacks, marvel at Confucius MC and his rap poetry and showcase local songwriter Chris Simmons new single – a rewrite of Wonderwall. I would stay in for it..

Hour One

1. Kinks – I’m Not Like Everybody Else (B side of “Sunny Afternoon”, 1966+1996)

2. Memory Hotel – Apollo (Apollo 2025)

3. Noble Jacks – Never Been Here Before (Single 2022)

4. EyeDress – My Crazy Ways ft. Harmony Korine (Stoner 2025)

5. Mojo Nixon – Burn Down The Malls (Single, 1986)

6. Confucious MC, Jehst & Eva Lazarus – One Horse Town (Single 2022)

7. Mark Stewart – Memory Of You (The Fateful Symmetry, posthumous release 2025)

8. Galatée – Le Cœur (Single, 2015)

9. CMAT – Euro-Country (Euro-Country 2025)

10. Whitney’s Playland – Talk (Long Rehearsal, 2025)

11. Clairo – Add Up My Love (Charm, 2024)

Hour Two

1. L’Eclair – Run (feat. Gelli Haha) (Cloud Drifter, 2025)

2. Thurston Harris – Little Bitty Pretty One (Single 1967)

3. J.J. Jackson – But It’s Alright (J.J. Jackson 1967)

4. Quinnie – For U (Paper Doll 2025)

5. The Sapphires – I’ve Got Mine You Better Get Yours (Single 1964 / Best of Sapphires 1964)

6. Andrew Combs – Better Way (Canyons Of My Mind, 2017)