The Whole Nine Yards Episode 257     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 28th December 2025 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Resolutionaries

This time of the year is when we look back ruefully and plan to do things differently next year. Normally the good intentions become goodbyes before the end of January, but for a brief time, perhaps just a few hours, everything seems possible.

Welcome to Planuary. This is the soundtrack for all radical resolutionaries..

Hour One

Counting Crows – A Long December (Recovering the Satellites 1996)

Angus & Julia Stone – Here We Go Again (A Book Like This 2007)

You Me at Six – Hope For The Best (Cavalier Youth 2014)

Amy MaDonald – The Hope (Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? 2025)

Randy Crawford – Wishing on a Star (Every Kind of Mood)

Athlete – Light the Way (Black Swan 2009)

Doves – Catch the Sun (Lost Souls 2000)

The Veils – Guiding Light (The Runaway Found 2003)

Ash – Shining Light (Free All Angels 2001)

Swing Out Sister – I Wish I Knew (Almost Persuaded 2018)

The Jeremy Days – Brand New Toy (The Jeremy Days 1988)

Thea Gilmore – Start as We Mean to Go On (Regardless 2013)

Daughtry – Start of Something Good (Break the Spell 2011)

Hour Two

Altered Images – I could be happy 12”  (Pinky Blue 1982)

Martin Smith – Back to the Start (Back to the Start 2013)

The Montrose Avenue – Start Again (30 Days Out 1998)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days (Let Love In 2005)

Guided By Voices – Hold On Hope (Do The Collapse 1999)

Rod Stewart – Tomorrow is a Long Time (Every Picture Tells a Story 1971)

Eva Cassidy – Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Imagine 2002)

The Courteeners – Yesterday, Today & Probably Tomorrow (St Jude 2008)

Tenth Avenue North – I Have This Hope (Followers 2016)

Bill Ryder-Jones – If Tomorrow Starts Without Me (Lechyd Da 2023)

Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams (Wrecking Ball 1999) (Live in New York 2001)