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)