The Whole Nine Yards Episode 256     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 21st December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Hour One

Seasonal songs left out in the cold.

These are the songs that didn’t make it down the chimney. There was no mince pies and certainly no carrots waiting for them. They languished in the cold, snowmen melting with tears as each year they were ignored again. These are the precious presents lost under the sofa, thrown into sacks of wrapping paper or staring from outside through  the family window.

The lost Christmas songs in from the cold. At last.

Hour One

The Beths – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Single 2018)

Florrie – Kissing in the Cold (Mistletoe Version) (The Lost Ones 2024)

Boh Doran – Real Christmas (Underground Christmas 2020)

The Bleachers – Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call (Single 2024)

The Flaming Lips – A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t So) (Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell 2003/2020 Reissue)

Julian Casablancas – I Wish It Was Christmas Today (Single, 2009)

The Rosebuds – Melt Our Way Out (Christmas Tree Island 2013)

Tom Walker – For Those Who Can’t Be Here (Single 2021)

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds -‘Wandering Star (Blue Moon Rising EP 2019)

Frightened Rabbit – It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop (Single 2008)

Johnny Hallyday – Mon plus beau Noël (Ma Vérité 2005)

Chorale – Riu, Riu (Single 1978)

Hour Two

Marillion – I Believe in Father Christmas (Single 2023)

Chris Squire – Run with the Fox (Chris Squire’s Swiss Choir 2007)

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize – It Only Snows at Christmas (Dufflecoats and Christmas Cards 2016)

The Band – Christmas Must Be Tonight (Islands 1977)

Freedom Fly – My Evergreen (Single 2024)

JVKe – CHRISTmas (This is What Christmas Feels Like 2025)

Gemma Hayes & Richard Egan – The Christmas Song (Single 2015)

Echosmith – I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day (Single 2013)

There Will be Fireworks – In Excelsis Deo (Because, Because 2011)

Low – Some Hearts (at Christmas Time) (Single 2016)

Mew – She Came Home For Christmas (Frengers: Not Quite Friends, Not Quite Strangers 2003)

Future of Forestry – Now (Single 2021)

Sam Fender – Winter Song (Live a The Sage Gateshead) (Single 2020)

Picture This – This Christmas (Orchestral version) (Single 2019) (Original 2017)