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  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 254 7.12.25 The Songs of Billy Blake with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 254With Roy StannardOn Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FMSunday 7th December 2025 3-5pmwww.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen The Songs of Billy Blake William Blake’s life and work have moved many artists, musicians in particular. His influence has crossed genres: classical, punk, and folk musicians have walked through his doors of perception. He wrote ‘Jerusalem’, ‘Tyger, Tyger’ Read more

  • Songs about Forever with Roy Stannard on The Whole Nine Yards Sunday 5th January 2025 on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 206 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 5th January 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Forever Some tracks are timeless – and some are somehow plucked from the ether and will live for much longer than us. Everlasting songs and forever lyrics. Hour One Amber Pacific – Forever (Virtues 2010) Read more

  • Always, my Friend

    A friendship that is never tested Because there is no cross examination. Where the beginning Is also the end. Always, my friend. Read more

  • Who Is Like God?

      Who is like God? Love was the father and love the mother. You arrived in December, anticipating another Christmas A reward in yourself rather than a present A pilgrimage more than a journey Because we cannot find love in ourselves Only with another And you were the purest love The world of love in Read more

  • The Language of Us

      The Language of Us Before you, I walked at the edge of the group A straggler in strangers My life didn’t fit, held together with an unsafety pin I was made not to measure A bird not of a feather And my hesitant shadow held back Expecting never to be expectant, half a step Read more

  • Eden Again

    I caught a single piece of history A man assembling his thoughts like a Summer picnic You ran through the landscape like a chalkland stream Swimming bareclad through the jibs and jibes and jabbering You took photographs through the lens of your compassion And used words like needlepoint, stitching people into history Read more

  • Joyeaux Anniversaire, comme ils disent

    ‘Comme ils disent’ ‘As they say’, and they did about us But we stepped to one side and let the dissenters pass We let the March become April and the thunder become light. Read more

  • Farewell, Old Long Since

    It was a year that didn’t stop for anyone but there will be another one along in a minute. Read more

  • Somewhere, Nowhere, Everywhere

    Somewhere, nowhere, everywhere Before the rise and fall of everything When the tilting storm clouds creased their foreheads And the world felt numb I searched for meaning in words and phrases like a dictionary compiler struck blind I couldn’t see for the eyes in front of me I couldn’t hear because there were too many Read more

  • The Poppies

    We were at peace with the poppies, whispering like moths wings on a perfect Sussex hillside Feeling the fairy stems caress our legs like a repeated yes, yes. Read more