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  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 159 11.2.24 ‘You’d forget you were dreaming’ with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    I wonder, I wonder – a radio show inspired by the British philosopher Alan Watts​ and the segment of his lecture ‘Inception’. The Whole Nine Yards Ep 155 11.2.24 with Roy Stannard​ on Mid Sussex Radio​ 103.8FM You’d forget you were dreaming.. Is there an internal irony to a Cruise company using a talk that 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

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 151 17.12.23 2023: The Greatest Misses with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-151-171223-2023-the-greatest-misses-2-roy-stannard-on-mid-sussex-radio/ The Whole Nine Yards Episode 151 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 17th December 2023 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen 2023: The Greatest Misses Pt 2 More of the year’s best non-hits whose managers will be looking for new jobs..plus a few seasonal tracks that Santa likes to shimmy to before he drops down Read more

  • 2023: The Greatest Misses Pt 1 with Roy Stannard on The Whole Nine Yards 10.12.23 on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-150-101223-2023-greatest-misses-pt-1-roy-stannard-on-mid-sussex-radio/https://www.mixcloud.com/roystannard/the-whole-nine-yards-ep-150-101223-2023-greatest-misses-pt-1-roy-stannard-on-mid-sussex-radio/ 2023: The Greatest Misses Pt 1 This is the time of the year when we thinks about the year’s best tracks and draw up our lists. Well, spare a thought for all the brilliant music that didn’t make it into the charts. It deserves its place in the limelight too. This week we play Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 70 29.5.22 with Roy Stannard – Beauty: Not Skin Deep on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

    https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/episodes/The-Whole-Nine-Yards-Ep-70-29-5-22-Beauty-Not-Skin-Deep-with-Roy-Stannard-on-Burgess-Hill-Radio-103-8FM-e1j7nqa The Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 70 With Roy Stannard On Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM Sunday May 29th 2022 3-5pm www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Not Skin Deep. Creating a false reality in photoshopped images creates low self-worth. We’ve become immune to what media portrays, and have accepted the media-defined lie about what is considered beautiful. How Read more

  • Tapi Carpets Man Nick Potter turns Radio Man

    An unlikely musical partnership has emerged from a chance encounter between radio commercial manager and presenter Roy Stannard and carpet estimator Nick Potter who works at the Rustington branch of Tapi Carpets. Nick Potter arrived at Roy Stannard’s house in Burgess Hill early in 2015 to measure up for a carpet fitting but the conversation Read more

  • My Top 20 Tracks of 2016

    Ok, heading from the bottom to the top, here are my top 20 songs of 2016. Objective? No. Subjective? Yes. A great listen? Of course. I will be playing these on my radio show on http://www.seahavenfm.com on Thursday 29th December at 7-9pm. It will be great if you can come along for the ride. Catfish Read more

  • How do you interview the 20th Century?

    Through a mutual friend the opportunity arose recently to interview in a kind of Desert Island (Denton Island?) Discs format, the former Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Denis Healey, who resides at Alfriston and is one of the dominant figures in Twentieth Century politics. Read more