The Whole Nine Yards Ep 296
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 27 September 2026 3-5pm
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
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14 subjects chosen across the social classes, at the age of 7. Unfairly, 10 boys and 4 girls, equally the gender bias is revealed in the show’s original inspiration, the Jesuit saying ‘Give me a child until the age of 7, and I’ll give you the man’. The original World in Action team based at Granada studios in Manchester followed these 14 individuals every seven years right up to this year. Each seven-year jump marks a new stage of life, while Britain’s soundtrack and the wider world change around us. Two deaths and the death of the director, Michael Apted, made this the last time we’ll see this group. In some ways I feel like I’ve grown up with them.
Hour One
1956
Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry – Ain’t Got No Home (Single 1956)
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog (Single 1956)
1963
The Rolling Stones – I Wanna Be Your Man (Single 1963)
The Beatles – Please, Please Me (Please, Please Me 1963)
1970
The Moody Blues – Question (A Question of Balance 1970)
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky (Spirit in the Sky 1970)
The Trammps – Disco Inferno 12” (Saturday Night Fever OST 1977)
The Jam – Away From The Numbers (In The City 1977)
Swansway – Soul Train 12” (The Fugitive Kind 1984)
Talk Talk – Such a Shame 12” (2003 Remaster 1984)
Hour Two
1991
Blur – There’s No Other Way (Leisure 1991)
The House of Love – Marble (A Spy in the House of Love 1991)
1998
Portishead – Sour Times (Dummy 1998)
Unkle ft Richard Ashcroft – Lonely Soul (Psyence Fiction 1998)
2005
The Wombats – Moving to New York (Proudly Present…A Guide to Love, Life and Loneliness 2005
Chris Simmons – Home (Demo) 2005
2012
Underworld – Caliban’s Dream (long version) (The Collection 2 / London Olympics Ceremony 2012)
Metric – Breathing Underwater (Synthetica 2012)
Sam Fender – Greasy Spoon (Hypersonic Missiles 2019)
Fontaines D.C. – Roy’s Tune (Dogrel 2019)
2026
Cleo Sol – Together (Gentlewoman 2026)
Tooth – Schoolyard (Restless in Bloom EP 2026)Hour One
1956
Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry – Ain’t Got No Home (Single 1956)
Elvis Presley – Hound Dog (Single 1956)
1963
The Rolling Stones – I Wanna Be Your Man (Single 1963)
The Beatles – Please, Please Me (Please, Please Me 1963)
1970
The Moody Blues – Question (A Question of Balance 1970)
Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky (Spirit in the Sky 1970)
The Trammps – Disco Inferno 12” (Saturday Night Fever OST 1977)
The Jam – Away From The Numbers (In The City 1977)
Swansway – Soul Train 12” (The Fugitive Kind 1984)
Talk Talk – Such a Shame 12” (2003 Remaster 1984)
Hour Two
1991
Blur – There’s No Other Way (Leisure 1991)
The House of Love – Marble (A Spy in the House of Love 1991)
1998
Portishead – Sour Times (Dummy 1998)
Unkle ft Richard Ashcroft – Lonely Soul (Psyence Fiction 1998)
2005
The Wombats – Moving to New York (Proudly Present…A Guide to Love, Life and Loneliness 2005
Chris Simmons – Home (Demo) 2005
2012
Underworld – Caliban’s Dream (long version) (The Collection 2 / London Olympics Ceremony 2012)
Metric – Breathing Underwater (Synthetica 2012)
Sam Fender – Greasy Spoon (Hypersonic Missiles 2019)
Fontaines D.C. – Roy’s Tune (Dogrel 2019)
2026
Cleo Sol – Together (Gentlewoman 2026)
Tooth – Schoolyard (Restless in Bloom EP 2026)
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