The Whole Nine Yards Episode 268     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 15th February 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Leaving is Believing

We all leave something at some point. Sometimes it arrives quietly, like a tide slipping out. Other times it hits with the force of a slammed door. It can be sad. Goodbyes usually are. We leave people, places, versions of ourselves we thought were permanent.

But leaving can also be a release. A chance to step out of old caves and breathe different air. It’s the moment you realise you’re not stuck, that you can move, change, begin again. This show sits in that space between sorrow and liberation. Florence + the Machine, Ride, Sam Fender, R.E.M., Joni Mitchell, Morgan Wade – they all know what it means to walk away, to look back, and to keep going anyway. Whether it’s slipping out of a city, shedding old skin, taking flight, or simply choosing yourself. Sometimes leaving is believing..

Hour One

Roy Stannard / Søren Bebe Trio – Leaving is Believing / Echoes (Spoken Word 2026 / Echoes 2019)

Florence + the Machine – Queen of Peace (How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful 2015)

Metric – Formentera (Formentera 2022)

Neck Deep – Parachute (The Peace And The Panic 2017)

Ride – Chelsea Girl (Ride EP 1990)

Glasvegas – Whatever Hurts You Through The Night (Euphoric Heartbreak 2011)

Little Boots – Motorway (Nocturnes 2013)

Amy MacDonald – We Survive (Is This What You’ve Been Waiting For? 2025)

The Goo Goo Dolls – Stay With You (Let Love In 2006)

David Gray – Sail Away (White Ladder 1998)

Sam Fender – Leave Fast (Dead Boys EP 2018)

Hour Two

R.E.M. – Leaving New York (Around The Sun 2004)

The Cranberries – Ode To My Family (No Need To Argue 1994)

The War On Drugs – Old Skin (I Don’t Live Here Anymore 2021)

Morgan Wade – Take Me Away (Reckless 2022)

Rex Orange County (featuring Tyler, the Creator) – Open A Window (Who Cares? 2022)

Procol Harum – A Rum Tale (Grand Hotel 1973)

Ray Stevens – Leaving on a Jet Plane (Everything is Beautiful 1970)

Erykah Badu – Window Seat (New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) 2010)Van Morrison – Beside You (Astral Weeks 1968)

Joni Mitchell – For The Roses (For The Roses 1972)

Tom Baxter – Sail Away (The Uncarved Block 2018)

Johnny Rivers – By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Changes 1966)

Shelby Lynne – Leavin’ (I am Shelby Lynne 2000)