The Whole Nine Yards Episode 244     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 28th September 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Know Regret

Regret is a quiet companion until music gives it a voice. Whether it’s the ache of a love misjudged, the sting of a decision made too soon, or the slow burn of beliefs we no longer hold, music lets us confess what words often can’t. A melody can cradle remorse without shame, and a lyric can say sorry without asking for forgiveness. In three minutes, a song can do what a lifetime of reflection struggles to achieve: make regret beautiful, bearable, and sometimes even shared.

As Édith Piaf famously sang, “J’regrette rien” – I regret nothing. But for many of us, the more honest refrain might be its shadowed twin: “Je regrette tout.” I regret everything.

Hour One

Half Man Half Biscuit – No Regrets ft Margi Clarke (Single 1991)

Red Light Company – Meccano (Fine Fascination 2009)

The Cure – Cut Here (Cut Here Single / Greatest Hits  2001)

Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy (Eyes Open 2006)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – We’re On Our Way Now (Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021) (2021)

Jackson Dean – Heavens To Betsy (On the Back of My Dreams 2024)

Rod Stewart – I Was Only Joking (Foot Loose & Fancy Free 1977)

Dean Lewis – 7 Minutes (A Place We Knew 2019)

The Shangri-Las – I Can Never Go Home Anymore (Shangri-Las-65! 1965)

Starley – Been Meaning To Tell You (Single 2017)Bo Bruce – Alive (Before I Sleep 2013)

Adele – Chasing Pavements (19 2008)

Hour Two

Glen Campbell – Dreams of the Everyday Housewife (Wichita Lineman 1968)

Eagles – Best Of My Love (On The Border 1974)

Gone West – What Could’ve Been (Canyons 2019)

First Aid Kit – Blue (The Lion’s Roar 2012)

Gabrielle Aplin (ft Matt Berninger) – Call Me (Phosphorescent 2022)

The National (featuring Bon Iver) – Weird Goodbyes (Laugh Track 2022)

Taylor Swift (featuring Matt Berninger) – Coney Island (Evermore 2020)

Van Morrison – Coney Island (Avalon Sunset 1989)

Cian Ducrot – All For You (Victory 2022)

Natalie Merchant – Maggie Said (Natalie Merchant 2014)

The Civil Wars  – The One That Got Away (The Civil Wars 2013)

Placebo – Bosco (Loud Like Love 2013)

Robbie Williams – No Regrets (I’ve Been Expecting You 1998)