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

⁠

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

Lost Immortals Ep 356 1.11.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 355 Sunday 11th Jan 2026 5-7pm

with Roy Stannard & Matthew Staples

on Mid Sussex Radio103.8FM

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Ghost of who you were

Big names. Small chart impacts. Apollo 440. All About Eve. World Party. The Replacements. Jackson Browne. Glen Campbell. Vital then. Penumbral now.

Hour One

1. World Party – What Does it Mean Now (Dumbing Up 2000)

2. Ween – Gabrielle (Shinola (Vol. 1), 2005)

3. Budgie – Crash Course in Brain Surgery (2013 Remaster) (Single 1971) (Budgie

Remastered 2013)

4. Tony K – Drug (Single 2023)

5. Apollo 440 – Make My Dreams Come True (Dude Descending a Staircase (Japanese

edition only 2003)

6. All About Eve – Farewell Mr Sorrow (Touched by Jesus 2001)

7. Mogwai – Dry Fantasy (As the Love Continues 2021)

8. Khruangbin – Dern Kala ii (The Universe Smiles Upon You ii, 2025)

9. Maurice El Médiouni – Ya Maalem (Cafe Oran, 1996)

10. Ojos Feos – G’Bye Mugabe (La Situación 2019)

11. Elin Ruth Sigvardsson – Dead Man Walking (Cookatoo Friends, 2009)

Hour Two

1. The Replacements – Cruella Deville (Single, 1988)

2. Mink DeVille – Let Me Dream If I Want To (Live) (Live at CBGB’s 1976)

3. Cake – Friend is a Four Letter Word (Fashion Nugget 1996)

4. Mark William Lewis – Petals (mark william lewis, 2025)

5. Flora Hibberd – Auto Icon (Swirl, 2025)

6. Ciara Blue – Ghost Of Who You Were (Single, 2025)

7. Enzo Avitabile – E’ancora tiempo ft Pino Daniele (Black Tarantella 2012)

8. Just Others – Close Your Eyes to the Sun (Amalgam, 1974)

9. ZAZ – Comme ci comme ça (Recto Verso 2013)

10. Zaho de Sagazan – Les Dormantes (La symphonie des éclairs 2022)

11. Jackson Browne – The Pretender (The Pretender 1976)

12. Glen Campbell – Classical Gas (live) (Live in Concert 2014)

Extended

1. Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media – ペインテッド・パラダイス (Painted Paradise) (Funky

Stuff, 1975)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 259 11.1.26 The Promise with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 259     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 11th January 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

The Promise

Today’s show is built around a simple idea that’s anything but simple: the promise.

We make them lightly when we’re young, more carefully as we grow older, and sometimes with trembling hands when life has roughed us up. Promises are supposed to be for life – vows we stitch into the fabric of who we are. They hold us together, guide us forward, and remind us of the people we once said we’d be.

But when a promise breaks sometimes we do too. And yet – and this is the beautiful, crazy, hopeful part – we keep making them anyway. Because to promise is to believe in tomorrow. To believe in each other. To believe in ourselves, even when we’re not entirely sure we should.

So across the next couple of hours, the music will explore the vows we keep, the ones we lose, and the ones that change us. We’ll listen out for the promise of safety, and when that’s gone, the quiet courage of trying again.

Hour One

Beverley Craven – Promise Me (Beverley Craven 1990)

Anna Pancaldi – Promise We’ll Never Grow Old (Black Tears EP, 2015)

Broken Records – A Promise (Until the Earth Begins to Part, 2009)

Cock Robin – The Promise You Made (Cock Robin, 1985)

Ben Howard – Promise (Every Kingdom, 2011)

Big Thief – Promise Is a Pendulum (Dragon New Warm Mountain…, 2022)

Marine Girls – Promises (Beach Party, 1981)

Fiona Apple – Never Is a Promise (Tidal, 1996)

Tim Hardin – Don’t Make Promises (Tim Hardin 1966)

Tracy Chapman – The Promise (2015 Remaster) (New Beginning 1995)

Villagers – Ship of Promises (Becoming a Jackal, 2010)

The Laughing Chimes – A Promise to Keep (Whispers in the Speech Machine, 2025)

Hour Two

The Farmer’s Boys – A Promise You Can’t Keep (Get Out and Walk, 1983)

Brian Mackey – Promise Me (Promise Me, 2019)

Jess Glynne – Promise Me (Jess, 2024)

D’Influence feat. Shola Ama – This I Promise You (40 Soulful Grooves, 2002)

Jhene Aiko – Promises (Souled Out, 2014)

Naked Eyes – Promises, Promises (Burning Bridges, 1983)

Nick Kamen – I Promised Myself (Move Until We Fly, 1990)

Radiohead – I Promise (OK Computer OKNOTOK, 2017)

Icehouse – No Promises (Measure for Measure, 1986)

The Boxer Rebellion – Promises (Promises, 2013)

When in Rome – The Promise (When in Rome, 1988)

Haevn – Promise (Symphonic Version) (Promise Single, 2026)

Lost Immortals Ep 354 4.1.26 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Lost Immortals Ep 354

Sunday 4th January 2026 5-7pm

on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Is it too much to ask?

The first show of 2026 highlights the lost and the undiscovered, the musical wallflowers and brand new show ponies. The swept away include Alice Russell, Faye Webster, Bed Head, The Lemonheads; the swept ins include Jacob Alon, Faeland, Rosalia and Annahstasia. The show where artists get to hear that you’re listening.

Hour One

1.     Judeline – Mangata (Bodhiria, 2024)

2.     The Kruger Brothers & The  Kontras Quartet – Fields of Gold (live) (The Merlefest 2015)

3.     Alice Russell – To Dust (To Dust 2013)

4.     Faye Webster – Is It Too Much To Ask (Faye Webster, 2017)

5.     The Raconteurs – The Switch and the Spur (Consolers of the Lonely 2008)

6.     Erika de Casier – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (Still, 2025)

7.     Bedhead – Powder (Bedhead 1992-1998 2014 / What Fun Life Was 1994)

8.     The Handsome Family – So Much Wine (In The Air, 2000)

9.     The Lemonheads – Hannah & Gabi (It’s a Shame About Ray 2009 / Remastered 2022)

10.  Bright Eyes – Easy/Lucky/Free (Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, 2005)

11.  Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet – Eh Ya Ye (Ladilikan 2015)

Hour Two

1.     Josh Rouse – Salton Sea (Love in the Modern Age 2018)

2.     Kris Kristofferson – Gettin’ By, High and Strange (Border Lord, 1972)

3.     Sam Hunt – Take Your Time (Montevallo 2014)

4.     The Magnetic Fields – ’01 Have You Seen It in the Snow (50 Song Memoir, 2017)

5.     Teskey Brothers – Paint My Heart  (Run Home Slow 2019)

6.     Ego Ella May – The Morning Side of Love (The Morning Side of Love, 2022)

7.     ROSALÍA – Magnolias (Lux, 2025)

8.     Darrell Scott – 6 O’Clock In the Morning (Theatre Of The Unheard, 2003)

9.     Stacey Kent – Postcard Lovers (The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain, 2024)

10.  Faeland – Hold On (Demo version) (The Remedy 2025)

11.  Jacob Alon – I Couldn’t Feed Her (In Limerence, 2025)

12.  Annahstasia –  Believer (Tether 2025)

Extended

Anders Osborne – Running (Buddha & The Blues 2019)

Nicolas Jaar  – Three Sides of Nazareth (Sirens 2016)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 258 4.1.26 The Year of Living Dangerously with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 258     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 4th January 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

2026: The Year of Living Courageously

The New Year – a moment to pause, and look ahead with a little more heart than fear. This year isn’t about grand gestures or impossible resolutions. It’s about the small, steady acts of courage that help us live more openly and more kindly. This show will remind us that courage isn’t loud – it’s lived.

A choice, a day, and a healing at a time. As the character Billy Kwan almost says to Guy Hamilton in Jakarta: “Most of us become children again when we enter the foothills of the new year. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood. With all its opposite intensities: laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, the familiar and the figures in the shadows.”

Hour One

U2 – Your Song Saved My Life (Sing 2 2021)

MercyMe – The Hurt & The Healer (The Hurt & The Healer 2012)

Sault – God will help you Heal (Acts of Faith 2024)

Joanna Cooke – Still Healing (Kaleidoscope EP 2022)

Metric – Now Or Never Now (Art of Doubt 2018)

Feeder – The Healing (Torpedo 2022)

Lewis Capaldi – Survive (Survive EP 2025)

Freddy L – Hallelujah (Single 20250

Tom Odell – Heal (Long Way Down (Bonus edition) 2013)

First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining (Stay Gold 2014)

Soap&Skin Heal – From Gas to SolidJohn Mayer – In Repair (Continuum 2006)

Lauren Daigle – Rescue (Look Up Child 2019)

Hour Two

Natasha Bedingfield – Recover (Strip Me 2010)

Milck – Quiet (This is not the End 2018)

KT Tunstall – Heal Over (Eye to the Telescope 2004)

Fletcher – Healing  (Girl of My Dreams (Deluxe) 2021)

Anna Nalick – Breathe (2am) (Wreck of the Day 2005)

Taylor Swift – This is Me Trying (Folklore 2020)

Katy Perry – By The Grace of God (Prism 2013)

Tenth Avenue North – Healing Begins (The Light Meets the Dark 2010)

Van Morrison – And the Healing Has Begun (Into the Music 1979)

Grace Carter – Heal Me (Single 2019)

Lost Immortals Ep 353 28.12.25 with Roy Stannard & Matt Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS Ep 353 Sunday 28th Dec 25 5-7pm with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Go Gently

As we move distracted and traumatised into 2026, our contributors have put forward some essential tracks to listen to as we contemplate the start of another year. The Pixies, Gladys Knight, James Yuill, Cocteau Twins, Grandaddy and Picture This make the transition less painful.

Hour One

1. Rise Against – Savior (Appeal to Reason, 2008)

2. Those Damn Crows – Blink Of An Eye (Murder and the Motive, 2020)

3. Metallica: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (live) (Washington, D.C. – March 20, 2024)

4. Grouplove – Tongue Tied (Never Trust A Happy Song, 2011)

5. The Pixies – Nimrod’s Son (Come On Pilgrim, 1997)

6. Hum – Stars (You’d Prefer an Astronaut, 1995)

7. Blink182 – Dammit (Dude Ranch, 1997)

8. Kelly Boesch – Night Owl (Single 2025)

9. The Incredible Bongo Band – Apache (Original 1973) (DJ Booblikon Mix)

10. Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Will Survive (Touch, 1981)

Hour Two

1. JJ Grey & Mofro – The Sweetest Thing (Georgia Warhorse, 2010)

2. Anders Osborne – Highway (Living Room, 1999)

3. Acústico 1Kilo – Deixe-me Ir (Baviera, Knust e Pablo Martins)

4. Pink Floyd – See-Saw (A Saucerful of Secrets 1968)

5. King Hannah – Look at Miss Ohio (Single 2025)

6. James Yuill – No Surprise (Turning Down Water For Air, 2009)

7. Cocteau Twins – Heaven Or Las Vegas (Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990)

8. Grandaddy – Wives of Farmers (Through a Frost Plate Glass EP 2001)

9. Capsuna – Sleep (One Hit for Trainwreck, 2024)

10. Young Hunting – Sweet Bird (Hazel, 2013)

11. Picture This – Go Gently (Let The Light In EP 2025)

Music that hit the spot but missed the charts

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 257 28.12.25 Resolutionaries with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 257     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 28th December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Resolutionaries

This time of the year is when we look back ruefully and plan to do things differently next year. Normally the good intentions become goodbyes before the end of January, but for a brief time, perhaps just a few hours, everything seems possible.

Welcome to Planuary. This is the soundtrack for all radical resolutionaries..

Hour One

Counting Crows – A Long December (Recovering the Satellites 1996)

Angus & Julia Stone – Here We Go Again (A Book Like This 2007)

You Me at Six – Hope For The Best (Cavalier Youth 2014)

Amy MaDonald – The Hope (Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? 2025)

Randy Crawford – Wishing on a Star (Every Kind of Mood)

Athlete – Light the Way (Black Swan 2009)

Doves – Catch the Sun (Lost Souls 2000)

The Veils – Guiding Light (The Runaway Found 2003)

Ash – Shining Light (Free All Angels 2001)

Swing Out Sister – I Wish I Knew (Almost Persuaded 2018)

The Jeremy Days – Brand New Toy (The Jeremy Days 1988)

Thea Gilmore – Start as We Mean to Go On (Regardless 2013)

Daughtry – Start of Something Good (Break the Spell 2011)

Hour Two

Altered Images – I could be happy 12”  (Pinky Blue 1982)

Martin Smith – Back to the Start (Back to the Start 2013)

The Montrose Avenue – Start Again (30 Days Out 1998)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days (Let Love In 2005)

Guided By Voices – Hold On Hope (Do The Collapse 1999)

Rod Stewart – Tomorrow is a Long Time (Every Picture Tells a Story 1971)

Eva Cassidy – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Imagine 2002)

The Courteeners – Yesterday, Today & Probably Tomorrow (St Jude 2008)

Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope (Followers 2016)

Bill Ryder-Jones – If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Lechyd Da 2023)

Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams (Wrecking Ball 1999) (Live in New York 2001)