The Whole Nine Yards Episode 135
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 27th August 2023 3-5pm
http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
Dreams escaping from Towers
The castle or fortress tower metaphor gives us a powerful symbol for the ways in which human ambition can be confined by fear. It reminds us of the importance of breaking free from self-imposed barriers and embracing the unknown in order to break out our ambitions and invade our full potential.
The songs this week are the dreams on your battlements. Are you going to let them fly – or fall??
Hour One
Linkin Park – Castle of Glass (Living Things 2012)
Rich Kids – Ghosts of Princes in Towers (Ghosts of Princes in Towers 1978)
Chris & Carla – The Tower (Life Full of Holes 1995)
Blur – New World Towers (The Magic Whip 2015)
Kadebostany – Castle In The Snow (Single 2015)
Skylar Grey – Tower (Don’t Look Down 2013)
Lissie – Castles (Castles 2018)
Lissie – Castles (Piano version) (When I’m Alone: The Piano Retrospective 2019)
Anna Nalick – Citadel (Wreck of the Day 2004)
The Beauty Room – Fortress (The Beauty Room 2006)
Seals & Croft – Castles in the Sand (Summer Breeze 1972)
Don McLean – Castles in the Air (Castles in the Air 1981)
Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind (Sit Down Young Stranger 1970)
Hour Two
Freya Ridings – You Mean the World to Me (Freya Ridings 2019)
Bon Iver – Towers (Bon Iver 2011)
Lynsey de Paul – Ivory Tower (Surprise 1973)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – I Second that Emotion (Single 1968)
Samantha Sang & the Bee Gees – Emotion (Disco Purrfection Mix) (When Love is Gone 1978)
Finley Quaye – Emperor (Vanguard 2000)
Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver (The Seldom Seen Kid 2008)
Paul Weller – Old Castles (True Meanings 2018)
Freya Ridings – Castles (Orchestral version) Freya Ridings (2019)
Taylor Swift – Castles Crumbling (Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) 2023)
Prefab Sprout – Prisoner of the Past (Andromeda Heights 1997)
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