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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

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 208 19.1.25 Words & Music with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 208 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 19th January 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Words and Music Poetry offers great building blocks for songwriters due to its creative language, emotions, and imagery. Poems have a natural rhythm and flow that can easily translate into the structure of a song. Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 155 14.1.24 Sky High with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-155-14124-sky-high-with-roy-stannard-on-mid-sussex-radio-1038fm/ The Whole Nine Yards Episode 155 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 14th January 2024 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Sky High Sky high or Sky fall? The sky can prompt a wide range of feelings and moods. The brilliance of a clear day – to the sombre tones of an overcast one, is 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

  • When your child has a child

    ..the grand pursuit of the heart of La Grande Bellaza in the cradle of civilisation like turning out of an alley and finding light in the piazza.. Read more

  • The End and the Beginning

      The End and the Beginning   Because others had named the day We can plot the moment When first in a church and then in the barn of an after bouquet of a wedding you caught a glimpse of the future in each other deftly like a slipping shadow at first then ripening boldly 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

  • Do It Yourself Celebrity

    Last Friday 29th July I went to the Holmbush Centre at Shoreham to help my old friend and radio colleague Patrick Souiljaert man (person?) a stand at the entrance to Tesco there. He has written an autobiography in microscopic detail about the challenges of his life as a person with Cerebral Palsy. He was starved Read more

  • For Now

    Before the world became a serious business Because before you were a mother You were a little girl A wisp of a person Without a care in the world Read more