The Whole Nine Yards Ep 297 

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 4 October 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Conversation Pieces

This week’s journey begins with something we all do every day: talk. Sometimes it’s a casual chat, sometimes a heartfelt confession, sometimes an argument, and maybe even the conversation we wish we’d had but never found the words for.

We’ll hear artists wrestling with love, friendship and loneliness. Some tracks are directly inspired by conversations, while others reveal the spaces that open up when we speak honestly or listen closely. Exchanges between lovers, conversations with strangers, dialogues with ourselves and even a few songs where communication seems impossible.

With more than fifty years of music, from Faces and Talk Talk to The Strokes, Arlo Parks and Real Estate, we celebrate the power of words to build bridges, mend wounds, raise questions and sometimes cause trouble.

Hour One

George Thorogood & The Destroyers – You Talk Too Much (Born to be Bad 1988)

The Ramones – The Talks to Rainbows (Adios Amigos 1995)

The Strokes – The Adults are Talking (The New Abnormal 2020)

Rolling Coastal Blackout Fever – Talking Straight (Hope Downs 2018)

Nothing But Thieves – Real Love Song ft Bucharest Symphony Orchestra (Moral Panic 2020)

Coldplay – Talk (X&Y 2005)

Talk Talk – Talk Talk (The Party’s Over 1982)

‘Til Tuesday – Voices Carry (Voices Carry 1985)

Two Door Cinema Club – I Can Talk (Tourist History 2010)

Metric – Gimme Sympathy (Fantasies 2009)

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band – Fluke (Dear Scott 2022)

Hour Two

Yola – Diamond Studded Shoes (Stand For Myself 2021)

Tones and I – Cloudy Day (Welcome to the Madhouse 2021)

Real Estate – Talking Backwards (Single 2024)

Josi Young – Sandcastle (Sandcastle 2020)

My Morning Jacket – Golden (It Still Moves 2003)

Shelby Lynne – One With The Sun (Identity Crisis 2003)

Faces – As Long As You Tell Him (B-side You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything 1974)

Jack Savoretti – Singing to Strangers (Interlude) (Singing to Strangers 2019)

Amy Grant – What You Heard (The Journey 2023)

Lucinda Williams – Something About What Happens When We Talk (Sweet Old World 1992)

Arlo Parks – Black Dog (Collapsed In Sunbeams 2020)

Mark Knopfler – Brothers in Arms (Live in London 1996)