The Whole Nine Yards Episode 269     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 22nd February 2026 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Songs that save the day

There are days when the world feels a little grey around the edges, when the sky hangs low, the to‑do list grows long, or disappointment sits quietly in the corner of the room. But then a beautiful song arrives, and something shifts. A melody can decorate a drab day the way sunlight slips through a window; a lyric can put a smile where a sigh used to be. Music doesn’t fix everything, but it has a way of reminding us that we’re still here, still feeling, still capable of being moved. This week’s show is a celebration of those moments – beautiful songs that lift, soothe, and gently glue back the pieces of broken hearts.

Hour One

Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful (I Can Stand a Little Rain 1974)

Bob Dylan – Tomorrow Is A Long Time (Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II, 1971) 

Jimmy Webb – Three Songs: Let It Be Me / Never My Love / I Need You (Archive, ~1972–1974

Cado Belle – Rocked To Stony Silence (Cado Belle, 1976) 

Henry Gross – Shannon (Single, 1976) 

The Bluebells – Will She Always Be Waiting (Sisters, early 1980s

Delirious? – I Could Sing of Your Love Forever (Cutting Edge / I Could Sing of Your Love Forever, 1995) 

Matt Redman – The Father’s Song (The Father’s Song, 2000) 

A‑ha – Summer Moved On (Minor Earth Major Sky, 2000) 

Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now (Both Sides Now, 2000) 

Hour Two

Phatfish – There Is A Day (Heavenbound, 2003) 

Keane – This Is The Last Time (Hopes & Fears, 2004) 

Tom Baxter – My Declaration (Feather & Stone, 2004) 

Nerina Pallot – Learning to Breathe (Fires, 2005) 

The Other Two – Unwanted (Super Highways, 1999 / reissue 2006) 

Trashcan Sinatras – Weightlifting (Weightlifting, 2004) 

Milow – Out Of My Hands (Milow, 2009 / re‑release edition) 

Sara Bareilles – Gravity (Little Voice, 2007) 

Andrew Belle – Sky’s Still Blue (The Ladder, 2010) 

Amber Run – Just My Soul Responding (5AM, 2015) 

Bo Bruce – Save Me (Before I Sleep, 2013) 

Birdy – Strange Birds (Fire Within 2013)