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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 160

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 18^th February 2024 3-5pm

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

Dear God

Knowing that God is out there is strangely comforting. It means that we are not just uber-animals trying to be the fittest to survive. It makes sense of our endless search for love and purpose and our quest for knowledge.

C.S. Lewis once said, “We are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists.” The arts are often the place where we come closest to communicating on an astral plane. Musicians have asked the deepest questions in music since the first beat of a drum when God sat at the fireside with them..

Let’s see what they have found.

Hour One

Paul Weller – God (22 Dreams 2008)

Candi Staton – You Got the Love (Young Hearts Run Free 1986)

James Ingram and Michael McDonald – Yah Mo B There (The Winner in You 1983)

Coldplay – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (A Rush Of Blood To The Head 2002)

Sea Power – Green Goddess (Everything Was Forever 2022)

Waterboys – The Christ in You (Universal Hall 2003)

Mike Scott – Everlasting Arms (Still Burning 1997)

Martin Smith – Back To The Start (God’s Great Dance Floor) (God’s Great Dance Floor, Step 01 2013)

Millie Jackson – A Child of God (It’s Hard to Believe) (Millie Jackson 1972)

Plumb – God Shaped Hole (candycoatedwaterdrops 1999) (Re-recorded for her Greatest Hits 2010)

Third Day – Mountain Of God (Wherever You Are 2005)

Bess Atwell – Red Light Heaven (Already, Always 2021)

Counting Crows – God of Ocean Tide (Somewhere Under Wonderland 2014)

Hour Two

Brian Wilson & Friends – God Only Knows (What Love Can Do 2014)

XTC – Dear God (Skylarking 1986)

Monsters of Folk – Dear God (sincerely M.O.F) (Monsters of Folk 2009)

Midge Ure – Dear God (Answers to Nothing 1988)

Dexys Midnight Runners – My Goddess Is (The Feminine Divine 2023)

dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip – Letter from God to Man (Angles 2008)

Lana Del Rey – Gods and Monsters (Born to Die – The Paradise Edition 2012)

Lecrae – Worth It (All Things Work Together 2017)

Kutless – You Alone (Glory 2013)

The 1975 (featuring Phoebe Bridgers) – Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America (Notes On A Conditional Form 2020)

Bon Iver – 33 “GOD” (22, A Million 2016)

Lauren Daigle – Wordless (How Can It Be 2016)

Margaret Becker – You’re Still God (Air 2007)