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)