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  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 240 31.8.25 Good Nights. Better Days. with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 240 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 31st August 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Good Nights. Better Days. Positive words in songs act like emotional scaffolding, holding us up when the ground shakes. They don’t just reflect our emotions – they reshape them. Music has the power to convert Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 221 Easter Sunday 20.4.25 3-5pm Somewhere For Me with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 221 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Easter Sunday 20th April 2025 3-5pm www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Somewhere for Me An Easter special celebrating coming out of caves – and stones being rolled away with the landmark album ‘Somewhere For Me’ by the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus celebrating 20 years at Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 213 23.2.25 Nothing Rhymed with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    The Whole Nine Yards Episode 213 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 23rd February 2025 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Nothing Rhymed Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, has had a profound impact on contemporary music. His poetry has musicality and rhythm. His alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyming resonate with musicians. His poems read like songs.. Read more

  • The Whole Nine Yards Ep 131 30.7.23 Carried by the Wind with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

    https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/roy-stannard/episodes/The-Whole-Nine-Yards-Ep-131-30-7-23-Carried-by-the-Wind-on-Mid-Sussex-Radio-103-8FM-e27ht3q The Whole Nine Yards Episode 131 With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM Sunday 30rd July 2023 3-5pm http://www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen Carried by the Wind Throughout the globe, both wind and our words can either connect people or send them fleeing for physical or emotional safety. They can comfort or devastate. Whether a gentle ocean Read more

  • Lost Immortals Ep 161 24.4.22 with Roy Stannard and Matt Staples on Burgess Hill Radio 103.8FM

    THE LOST IMMORTALS – EXPANDING YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/episodes/Lost-Immortals-Ep-161-24-4-22-with-Roy-Stannard-and-Matt-Staples-on-Burgess-Hill-Radio-103-8FM-e1hjq3g Ep 161 24.4.22 5-7pm on Burgess Hill Community Radio103.8FM with Roy Stannard and Matthew Staples www.burgesshillradio.co.uk/listenlive Like Brighton‘s West Pier some songs survive through the years, unloved and neglected until suddenly they are re-discovered and retrieve their beauty, but in a totally different way. Like seagulls Read more

  • Roy’s List – praying for change in confidence for you.

    What it is.. I have felt moved to create a list of people (all anonymous) for whom I will commit to praying for every morning. I have spoken to most of you privately about the issues that you would like resolved. Recently, I have had the privilege of seeing prayers answered and I feel the Read more

  • Dancing Like Nobby Stiles

    Why we should all be more like Nobby Read more

  • The unexpected beauty of sadness

    Grief is the trigger mechanism built into our complicated psychology that makes us aware of the broken world around us. We don’t rejoice in suffering, we do something about it. God sacrificed his son to save a seriously messed-up world. We can assume that this was not a joyful experience. Grief can save you. Read more

  • The Importance of Small Things

    The Importance of Small Things I’m tired of the grand gestures. The overblown bows in front of an invisible crowd The forgettable pomp and unnecessary circumstance The people-pleasing patinas on public faces. I’m tired of political windbags blowing a gale The Lèse-majesté torpor and the majestic mistakes The talking up themselves And the clown princes Read more

  • “Float like a Butterfly, sting like a Hebrew Midwife..”

    The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, ‘When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.’  The midwives, however, feared God and didn’t Read more