The Whole Nine Yards Episode 251     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 16th November 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

The Enemy in Your Head

Often, we create the contours of fear, anxiety, and limited horizons in our own heads.

From Declan Donovan’s reflective ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ to Talk Talk’s early cries of dislocation, we map a journey through our inner jail cells. The songs this week highlight our internal saboteurs and how to get them to drop their weapons:

Jamie Cullum calls out anxiety, Sam Fender rails against tyrants, internal and external, and Lily Allen confronts ‘The Fear’. The fight is taken to the enemy – Lewis Capldi finding a ‘cure for minds unwell’, Alice Merton learning to live, and Lauren Daigle offering gratitude in the midst of struggle. This isn’t a soundtrack to anxiety; it’s a reminder that naming fear is the first step towards disarming it.

Hour One

Declan Donovan – Perfectly Imperfect (Homesick EP 2020)

SAULT – Fearless (Untitled (Rise) 2020)

Talk Talk – Talk Talk (The Party’s Over 1982)

Ian Brown – F.E.A.R. (Music of the Spheres 2001)

In Tua Nua – Don’t Fear Me Now (The Long Acre 1988)

Bombay Bicycle Club – Good Day (Everything Else Has Gone Wrong 2020)

Sam Fender – Tyrants (Me And The Dog 2024)

Tori Amos – Spies (Ocean To Ocean 2021)

Alice Merton – Learn to Live (Mint 2019)

Lily Allen – The Fear (Clean) (It’s not Me, It’s You 2008)

Jamie Cullum – The Age Of Anxiety (Single version) (Taller 2019)

Hour Two

Sia – Breathe Me (Colour the Small One 2004)

Temper Trap – The Science of Fear (Conditions 2009

Sara Groves – This One Place (Fireflies and Songs 2009)

Lauren Daigle – Thank God I Do (Lauren Daigle 2023)

Lewis Capaldi – A Cure For Minds Unwell (Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent 2024)

James Arthur – Train Wreck (Back from the Edge 2016)

Tom Odell – Monster V1 (Monsters 2021)

Tal Bachman – She’s So High (Tal Bachman 1999)

Maia Sharp – Too Far Now (Reckless Thoughts 2023)

Mitski – I Don’t Like My Mind (The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We 2012)

The National – Hornets (Laugh Track 2023)

Fearless Soul – Forever Young (Covers Sessions 2 2023)

Brandi Carlile – The Long Goodbye (Returning to Myself 2025)