The Whole Nine Yards Episode 274     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 26 April 26  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Even Atheists Pray

Prayer and contemporary music have always shared the same emotions: a voice reaching outward, upward, or inward, trying to make sense of the world. Strip away the ritual and what remains is the universal act of asking: for clarity, for comfort, for courage, for connection. Modern songwriters do this constantly. A whispered plea, a midnight confession, or a quiet hope set to melody. In this sense, the pop charts and the pews aren’t strangers at all; they’re simply two private places

where people practise the same ancient desire to speak their hearts into the dark and wait for an answer.

Hour One

Coldplay ft Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & Tini. – We Pray (Moon Music 2024)

George Michael – Praying for Time (remaster) (Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 1990)

U2 – American Prayer (Nelson Mandela AIDS Concert: African Prayer (2004)

Bruce Springsteen – The Power Of Prayer (Letter To You 2020)

Seal – Prayer For The Dying (Seal 1994)

Arethra Franklin & The London Philharmonic Orchestra – I Say a Little Prayer (A Brand New Me 2017)

Celine Dion & Andreas Bocelli  – The Prayer (Single 2008)

Rascal Flatts – Bless the Broken Road (Feels Like Today 2004)

Carolina Liar – Show Me What I’m Looking For (Coming to Terms 2008)

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbours – What Would I do without You (Good Light 2013)

Slowdive – Prayer Remembered (Everything Is Alive 2023)Hour Two

Hour Two

The Goo Goo Dolls – Prayer in my Pocket (Boxes 2016)

Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer (Meet Danny Wilson 1987)

Calvin Harris ft Haim – Pray to God (Motion 2014)

Little Boots – Every Night I Say A Prayer (Nocturnes 2012)

The Beths – Mother, Pray for Me (Straight Line was a Lie 2025)

Kodaline – Pray (In a Perfect World 2013)

The Coral – Drifter’s Prayer (Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show 2023)

Sipho – Prayers (Prayers & Paranoia 2023)

Brian Owens & the Deacons of Soul – Prayer For My Children (Soul Of Ferguson 2017)

Josephine – Pray that I Move (Portrait 2012)

Cousteau – She Don’t Hear Your Prayer (Cousteau 1990)

Cerys Williams – Rev Eli Jenkins Prayer (Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas, Poems & Tiger Eggs 2014)

Michael W. Smith – Prayer For Taylor (Freedom 2000)