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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 266 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 1st February 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Run Running – not the kind that requires Lycra, electrolytes, or a medal at the end, but the kind we all do without ever lacing a shoe. The running away from things we’re not ready… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 265 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 22nd February 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Breathe Let’s take a few moments to breathe. Some weeks feel like we’re racing ahead of ourselves, out of breath before we’ve even begun. Other weeks we hold it without realising, bracing for impact, waiting… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 264 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 15th February 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen New Voices There’s a long line of new music outside the front door, waiting to be invited in. Most of the tracks on the show this week are new and unknown. They gather bedraggled but… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 263 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 8th February 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Always Some words carry a kind of gravitational pull, and ‘always’ is one of them. It’s a promise of devotion that stretches beyond the present. ‘Always’ is what we say when we want to reassure… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 262 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 1st February 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen You’ve Got a Friend Music can hold someone up when life gets heavy. It can step into the room like an old friend, sit beside you, and say the words you didn’t know you needed.… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 259 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 11th January 2026 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen The Promise This show is built around a simple idea that’s anything but simple: the promise. We make them lightly when we’re young, more carefully as we grow older, and sometimes with trembling hands when… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 257 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 28th December 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Resolutionaries This time of the year is when we look back ruefully and plan to do things differently next year. Normally the good intentions become goodbyes before the end of January, but for a brief… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 256 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 21st December 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Hour One Seasonal songs left out in the cold. These are the songs that didn’t make it down the chimney. There was no mince pies and certainly no carrots waiting for them. They languished in… Read more
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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 255 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 14th December 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Secret Santa Songs Songs you never hear at Christmas.. This week the show is devoted to seasonal songs that have never troubled the chart and yet are at least as good as anything else on… Read more
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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
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