The Whole Nine Yards Episode 280     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 7 June 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Street Gospel

This Sunday we’re taking it to the streets: where faith meets funk, where belief rides a backbeat, and where the sacred sneaks into the everyday. Street Gospel is all about the places where spirit shows up unannounced: in a brass riff, a whispered confession, a hip‑hop benediction, a choir echoing off brick walls. These are songs that praise, protest, heal, and line up to have a great time.  It’s music with dust on its shoes and light in its chest. From revival‑tent shouts to candle‑lit prayers, this is belief in motion.

Hour One

The Allergies – God Walked Down (As We Our Thing 2016)

Etta James – God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) (from Matriarch of the Blues, 2000)

Moses Sumney & Kara Jackson – Sins of the Father (single, 2020)

Kirk Whalum & Jonathan Butler – Falling in Love With Jesus (from The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III, 2010)

Archie Shepp & Romulus Franceschini – Ballad for a Child (from Blasé, 1969)

Nina Simone – The Desperate Ones (from Nina Simone and Piano!, 1969)

Roberta Flack – Tryin’ Times (from First Take, 1969)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Spirits Up Above (from Volunteered Slavery, 1969)

Jimmy Scott – Exodus (from Falling in Love Is Wonderful, 1962)

Sunbeam Sound Machine – In Your Arms (from Wonderer, 2014)

Jools Holland & Ruby Turner – Get Away Jordan (from Jools Holland & Friends, 2007)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – This Train (from various recordings, originally 1939)

Hour Two

Dee Dee Bridgewater – (Take My Hand) Precious Lord (from Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver, 1995)

Edwin Hawkins – Oh Happy Day (from Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord, 1968)

Arrival – See the Lord (from Arrival, 1970)

Little Simz – Broken (from NO THANK YOU, 2022)

The Art Reynolds Singers – Jesus Is Just Alright (from Tellin’ It Like It Is, 1966)

Akua Naru – Walking the Block (feat. Drea d’Nur) (from The Miner’s Canary, 2015)

Kate Simmonds – We’ve Come to Praise You (from Heart & Soul, 2002)

Mark Edwards – The Trumpet Child (feat. Priscilla Jones Campbell) (from In Deep 2007)

Missy Higgins – All For Believing (The Sound of White 2004)

Lizz Wright – Grace (from Grace, 2017)

Carleen Anderson – Leopards in the Temple (from Blessed Burden, 1998)

Tropic of Groove – the meridian where funk, jazz and soul meet.

Acid jazz grooves because it sits right at the crossroads of funk, soul, jazz improvisation and club culture. The rhythm section punches with a irresistible beat; horns and keys add colour and character, while the bassline always the secret engine hits you right in your dance core. Acid jazz feels like a conversation between elegance and energy, perfect for a Sunday afternoon.

Hour One

Los Amigos Invisibles – Nada Que Decir (A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band  1995)

James Taylor Quartet + Benenden Chapel Choir + Snowboy – Have Mercy on Us (Te Deum 2026)

Vibraphonic – Heavy Vibes (Vibraphonic 2 1995)

Mondo Grosso – Life ft Bird (retune) (MG4 2000)

Solsonics – So Much More Together (Jazz in the present tense 1994)

Animal Nightlife – Native Boy (Shangri La 1985)

United Future Organisation – Loud Minority (United Future Organisation 1992)

Mario Biondi – This is What You Are (Dim’s Hipster Jazz Version By Dimitri From Paris) (Change of Scenes 2011)

Mark Murphy – Ding Walls (What a Way to Go 1990)

Billie Holiday – Speak Now (Bent remix) (Verve Remixes 3 2005)

Hour Two

Jestofunk     (Love in a Black Dimension 1994)

Brooklyn Funk Essentials – The Creator has a Master Plan (Cool, Steady and Easy 1994)

Groove Collective – Drunken  Master (Dance of the Drunk Master 1998)

Dave Pike – Mathar (Noisy Silence – Gentle Noise 1969)

Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express – Voices of Other Times  (Closer to it 1973)

De-Phazz – Jazz Music (Godsdog 1999)

Soulive – Doin’ Something (Doin’ Something 2001)

Greyboy – Grey’s Groove (15 Years of West Coast Cool 2008)

Tom Misch – It Runs Through Me (ft De La Soul)  (Geography 2018)

Reminiscence Quartet – Psycodelico (More Psycodelico 1996)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 278     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 24 May 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Samba City Grooves

On the show this week, in honour of the weather and the Bank Holiday, we’re stepping into a different kind of sunshine – the kind that doesn’t depend on the British weather, but on rhythm.

Latin dance carries the history of streets, cafés, carnivals and night time cities, but it never feels old. Whether it’s the elegance of Rio, the swagger of New York salsa, or the nu jazz reinventions from Tokyo to Berlin, every track was made for bodies in motion.

So shake yourself down and get ready for two hours of heat, colour and pure grooves.

Hour One

Tom & Joyce – Vai Minha Tristeza (Tom & Joyce, 2002)

Koop – Summer Sun (Waltz for Koop, 2001)

Acid Jazz Ensemble – 1,2,3 (c. 1993)

Mondo Kane feat. Georgie Fame – New York Afternoon (Rework S. Nolla Rebuild Mix Edit) (Single, 1986)

Sergio Mendes – Mas Que Nada (Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, 1966)

Flora Purim – From the Lonely Afternoon (Stories to Tell, 1974)

Fourth World – Earthquake (Fourth World, 1993)

Tito Puente – Oye Como Va (El Rey Bravo, 1963)

United Future Organisation – Cosmic Gypsy (Fila Brazillia Remix) (Single/Remix, 1997)

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Close But No Cigar (Close But No Cigar, 2018)

Humble Souls – Quiet Dawn (Quiet Dawn, 1994)

Hour Two

Black Machine – How Gee (How Gee, 1991)

Count Basic – Is It Real (The Urban Groove, 1994)

Groove Collective – Everything Is Changing (Declassified, 1999)

Marschmellows – Soulpower (Jazzanova Reworked) [Extended Version] (Single, 1997)

Varela – Make Ya Move (Single, 2002)

Martine Girault – Revival (Single Version, 1992)

The Solsonics – Jazz In The Present Tense (Jazz In The Present Tense, 1993)

Mo’ Horizons – Bosshannover (Come Touch The Sun, 1999)

Leroy Gomez – Deja Voodoo (I Got The Feeling, 1979)

DJ Cam Quartet – The Sweetest Pain (Rebirth of Cool, 2004)

The Whole Nine Yards

Ep 277 17.5.26 3-5pm

Choice Cuts

with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Songs about choices – the good ones and the bad ones.

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 277     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 17 May 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Choice Cuts

Today is a show about choices and decisions – that split‑second when the world holds its breath and you realise the next move is yours. On The Whole Nine Yards this week we explore the crossroads, the tiny pivots, the wild leaps, the quiet Oks and the loud forget-its that shape who we become. Every track is a turning point, every story a fork in the road, every moment an invitation to choose again.

Hour One is The Crossroads Hour about the wrong trains we board anyway, the hearts we give away, the futures we gamble on. The choices come fast – impulsive, hopeful, sometimes reckless – the kind that change you before you’ve even caught your breath.

Hour Two is The Consequences Hour, the dust has settled and the questions deepen. What do we carry from the decisions we made in the dark. Reminders that every yes, every no, every maybe shapes the person we become. This is the soundtrack of choosing, losing, learning, and beginning again.

Hour One

The Moody Blues – Question (A Question of Balance 1970)

The Fray –  All at Once (How to Save a Life 2006)

The Wombats – Can’t Say No (Oh! The Ocean 2025)

The Psychedelic Furs – Wrong Train (Made Of Rain 2020)

Apartment – Decision of Legomen (The Dreamer Evasive 2007)

The Heavy Hours – Take My Heart (I’ll Take Yours Too) (Gardens 2022)

Small Room 9 – I Have no Choice But to Love You (Small Room 9 2012)

Midnight Oil – Golden Age (Capricornia 2002)

Local Natives – When Am I Gonna Lose You (Violet Street 2019)

The Devlins – Big Decision (Waiting 1997)

Switchfoot – Twenty-Four (The Beautiful Letdown 2003)

Hour Two

The Beach Boys – All This Is That (Carl and the Passions 1972)

My Morning Jacket – Big Decisions (The Waterfall 2015)

The Radio Department – Where Damage isn’t already done (Lesser Matters 2003)

Puressence – Don’t Know any Better (Don’t Forget to Remember 2007)

Vanessa Carlton – Who’s To Say (Harmonium 2004)

Tristen – Complex (Aquatic Flowers 2021)

Shura – Indecision (2016 version) (Nothing’s Real 2014)

Brandi Carlile – When You’re Wrong (In These Silent Days 2021)

The Young Rascals – How Can I Be Sure? (Groovin’ 1967)

Beverley Knight – Shoulda Woulda Coulda (Who I Am 2002)

Rebecca Ferguson – I Choose You (Freedom 2013)

Foy Vance – At Least My Heart Was Open (live) (Joy of Nothing Live 2013)

Phil Campbell – When We Are History (Fresh New Life 1998)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 276     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 10 May 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

All Things Must Pass

The passing of time could be a worrying process – but it’s not because ageing has never worried all those Peter Pans in the Pop business. They sneer at the aging process – think ‘My Generation’ by The Who and they treat it as a joke – as in ‘When I’m 64’ by The Beatles written by McCartney when he was 15. Sometimes the tone becomes more philosophical as with that other Beatle writer, George Harrison and ‘All Things Must Pass’. And then there is ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ by Peter, Paul and Mary – a song about the loss of childhood innocence or was it a subversive  drugs anthem? This week the clock may be ticking but these songs are pictures in attic.

Hour One

Arthur ‘Dooley’ Wilson – As Time Goes By (As Time Goes By 1931)

Smashing Pumpkins – 1979  (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness 1995)

Silversun Pickups – Growing Old is Getting Old (Swoon 2009)

Pulp – Help The Aged (This Is Hardcore 1997)

Example – The Evolution Of Man (The Evolution Of Man 2012)

Flogging Molly – Float (Float 2008)

The Kinks – Do You Remember Walter? (The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 1968)

George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (All Things Must Pass 1970)

The Verve – Appalachian Springs (Forth 2008)

Keane – Bedshaped (Hopes and Fears 2004)

Alphaville – Forever Young (Forever Young 1984)

Paul Weller  – Time Passes (Stanley Road 1994)

Hour Two

The Courteeners – Not Nineteen Forever (St Jude 2008)

Bob Seger – Against The Wind (Against The Wind 1980)

Rod Stewart – You Wear it Well (Never a Dull Moment 1972)

Bruce Springsteen – I’ll See You in My Dreams (Letter to You 2020)

Cat Stevens – Oh Very Young (Buddha and the Chocolate Box 1974)

Bob Dylan – Forever Young (Slow version)

Peter Paul & Mary – Puff the Magic Dragon  (Moving 1963)

The Killers – When You Were Young (Sam’s Town 2006)

You Me at Six – When We Were Younger (Sinners Never Sleep 2011)

Jackson Browne – These Days (For Everyman 1973)

The Beatles – The Long and Winding Road (Let It Be 1970)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 275     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 3 May 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Once in a blue tune

A single moment is all it takes. Life can hinge on something that happens once – a glance, a mistake, a kiss, a loss, a revelation and music is the place to go when we want to feel that moment again. The doorway you only walk through once. This week we play songs about the instant everything changes. The one moment, person or experience that made us, once upon a time.

Hour One

Ian Hunter – Once Bitten, Twice Shy (Ian Hunter 1975)

Stevie Wonder – For Once in My Life (For Once in My Life, 1968)

Bleach Lab – If You Only Feel It Once (Lost in a Rush of Emptiness, 2023)

Duels – Once in the Night (The Bright Lights & What I Should Have Learned, 2006)

Matt Berry – To Live For What Once Was (Heard Noises, 2005)

Northern Uproar – Girl I Once Knew (Yesterday Tomorrow Today, 1996)

Sam Hunt – Young Once (Southside, 2020)

Jesse Mac Cormack – All at Once (Solo, 2019)

Jeff Buckley – Opened Once (Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, 1998)

Frank Ortega – Two Places at Once (Two Places at Once, 2008)

Bonnie Raitt – All at Once (Luck of the Draw, 1991)

Hour Two

The Strokes – You Only Live Once (First Impressions of Earth, 2006)

The Veils – The Stars Came Out Once the Lights Went Out (Troubles of the Brain EP, 2011)

The Magic Numbers – Once I Had (The Runaway, 2010)

Bradford – Everything at Once (Bradford, 1990)

James Morrison – Once When I Was Little (Songs for You, Truths for Me, 2008)

Air – Once Upon a Time (Pocket Symphony, 2007)

Liam Gallagher – Once (Acoustic Piano) (Radio 1 Piano Sessions, 2019)

Shura – Just Once (Just Once – Single, 2014)

The Like – Once Things Look Up (Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?, 2005)

The Righteous Brothers – Just Once in My Life (Just Once in My Life, 1965)

Stockholm Monsters – All at Once (Alma Mater Plus, 1984)

The Fray – All at Once (How to Save a Life, 2005)

Alex Thomas – How It Was Once (Here I Go EP, 2013)

The Upper Room – Once for Me (Demos Etc., 2004)

The Whole Nine Yards Ep 274

broadcast on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sun 26.4.26 3-5pm.

Even Atheists Pray with Roy Stannard.

Secular songs that sound like prayers.

Prayer and contemporary music have always shared the same emotions: a voice reaching outward, upward, or inward, trying to make sense of the world. Strip away the ritual and what remains is the universal act of asking: for clarity, for comfort, for courage, for connection. Modern songwriters do this constantly. A whispered plea, a midnight confession, or a quiet hope set to melody. In this sense, the pop charts and the pews aren’t strangers at all; they’re simply two private places

where people practise the same ancient desire to speak their hearts into the dark and wait for an answer.

Hour One

Coldplay ft Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & Tini. – We Pray (Moon Music 2024)

George Michael – Praying for Time (remaster) (Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 1990)

U2 – American Prayer (Nelson Mandela AIDS Concert: African Prayer (2004)

Bruce Springsteen – The Power Of Prayer (Letter To You 2020)

Seal – Prayer For The Dying (Seal 1994)

Arethra Franklin & The London Philharmonic Orchestra – I Say a Little Prayer (A Brand New Me 2017)

Celine Dion & Andreas Bocelli  – The Prayer (Single 2008)

Rascal Flatts – Bless the Broken Road (Feels Like Today 2004)

Carolina Liar – Show Me What I’m Looking For (Coming to Terms 2008)

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbours – What Would I do without You (Good Light 2013)

Slowdive – Prayer Remembered (Everything Is Alive 2023)Hour Two

Hour Two

The Goo Goo Dolls – Prayer in my Pocket (Boxes 2016)

Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer (Meet Danny Wilson 1987)

Calvin Harris ft Haim – Pray to God (Motion 2014)

Little Boots – Every Night I Say A Prayer (Nocturnes 2012)

The Beths – Mother, Pray for Me (Straight Line was a Lie 2025)

Kodaline – Pray (In a Perfect World 2013)

The Coral – Drifter’s Prayer (Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show 2023)

Sipho – Prayers (Prayers & Paranoia 2023)

Brian Owens & the Deacons of Soul – Prayer For My Children (Soul Of Ferguson 2017)

Josephine – Pray that I Move (Portrait 2012)

Cousteau – She Don’t Hear Your Prayer (Cousteau 1990)

Cerys Williams – Rev Eli Jenkins Prayer (Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas, Poems & Tiger Eggs 2014)

Michael W. Smith – Prayer For Taylor (Freedom 2000)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 274     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 26 April 26  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Even Atheists Pray

Prayer and contemporary music have always shared the same emotions: a voice reaching outward, upward, or inward, trying to make sense of the world. Strip away the ritual and what remains is the universal act of asking: for clarity, for comfort, for courage, for connection. Modern songwriters do this constantly. A whispered plea, a midnight confession, or a quiet hope set to melody. In this sense, the pop charts and the pews aren’t strangers at all; they’re simply two private places

where people practise the same ancient desire to speak their hearts into the dark and wait for an answer.

Hour One

Coldplay ft Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna & Tini. – We Pray (Moon Music 2024)

George Michael – Praying for Time (remaster) (Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 1990)

U2 – American Prayer (Nelson Mandela AIDS Concert: African Prayer (2004)

Bruce Springsteen – The Power Of Prayer (Letter To You 2020)

Seal – Prayer For The Dying (Seal 1994)

Arethra Franklin & The London Philharmonic Orchestra – I Say a Little Prayer (A Brand New Me 2017)

Celine Dion & Andreas Bocelli  – The Prayer (Single 2008)

Rascal Flatts – Bless the Broken Road (Feels Like Today 2004)

Carolina Liar – Show Me What I’m Looking For (Coming to Terms 2008)

Drew Holcomb & The Neighbours – What Would I do without You (Good Light 2013)

Slowdive – Prayer Remembered (Everything Is Alive 2023)Hour Two

Hour Two

The Goo Goo Dolls – Prayer in my Pocket (Boxes 2016)

Danny Wilson – Mary’s Prayer (Meet Danny Wilson 1987)

Calvin Harris ft Haim – Pray to God (Motion 2014)

Little Boots – Every Night I Say A Prayer (Nocturnes 2012)

The Beths – Mother, Pray for Me (Straight Line was a Lie 2025)

Kodaline – Pray (In a Perfect World 2013)

The Coral – Drifter’s Prayer (Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show 2023)

Sipho – Prayers (Prayers & Paranoia 2023)

Brian Owens & the Deacons of Soul – Prayer For My Children (Soul Of Ferguson 2017)

Josephine – Pray that I Move (Portrait 2012)

Cousteau – She Don’t Hear Your Prayer (Cousteau 1990)

Cerys Williams – Rev Eli Jenkins Prayer (Dylan Thomas, A Child’s Christmas, Poems & Tiger Eggs 2014)

Michael W. Smith – Prayer For Taylor (Freedom 2000)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 273     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 19 April 26  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

My Favourite Squeezes

The accordion is an instrument you might think you already know. Think again. The squeezebox has travelled through centuries, across borders, through cafés, carnivals, protest marches and back‑street bars, and yet it still plays on.

You’ll hear it lift indie anthems, ground folk ballads, and weave through electronic textures where it simply shouldn’t sound this good. It adds breath to circuit boards, adventure to minimalism, and an old voice to machine-made music. It reminds us that music is still made by air moving through reeds.

Hour One

Peter Sarstedt – Where do you go to my lovely? (Peter Sarstedt 1969)

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (1966)

The Young Rascals – How Can I Be Sure (Groovin’ 1967)

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Mr Bojangles (Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy 1970)        

Nilsson – Gotta Get Up (Nilsson Schmilsson

Cole Gallagher – Chatting Through Steel (The Confluence 2021)

Bruce Springsteen – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle

1973)

Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood 2 (Laika) (Funeral 2004)

Ceili Rain – Love Travels (Say KAY-lee 1997)

Steve Earle – Burnin’ It Down (The Low Highway 2013)

Los Lobos – La Bamba (La Bamba Soundtrack 1987)

Dire Straits – Romeo & Juliet (Making Movies 1980)

Hour Two

Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Drunken Lullabies 2002)

They Might Be Giants – Istanbul (Not Constantinople)  (Flood 1990)

Split Enz – Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Time And Tide 1982)

Billy Joel – Piano Man (Piano Man 1973)

First Aid Kit – King Of The World (The Lion’s Roar 2012)

The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes (Rum Sodomy & the Lash 1985)

Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Last Beat of My Heart (Peepshow 1988)

Fontaines D.C. – The Couple Across The Way (Skinty Fia 2022)

Rufus Wainwright – Dinner At Eight (Want One 2003)

Styx – Boat on the River (Cornerstone 1979)

The Rolling Stones – Back Street Girl   (Between The Buttons Remastered 1967)

ELP – C’Est La Vie (Works Vol. 1 1977)

The Whole Nine Yards Episode 271     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 5.4.26  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Putting Radio to Bed

Hospital radio in the UK began in the 1920s, when volunteers started bringing live sports commentary into hospitals so patients could follow local football matches. The first recognised service is usually credited to York County Hospital in 1925, where commentary was piped directly to bedsides.

Through the 1940s–60s, the movement expanded rapidly. Volunteers built makeshift studios, curated record libraries, and created programmes tailored to patients’ needs — dedications, request shows, gentle humour, and companionship through long nights.

By the 1970s, hospital radio had become a national institution, with hundreds of stations across the UK. It became a training ground for young broadcasters, a community hub, and a vital wellbeing service long before “wellbeing” was a formal concept.

Today, hospital radio continues as a volunteer‑driven service offering comfort, continuity, and human connection — the very things that matter most when someone is unwell or isolated.

Broadcasters Who Emerged from Hospital Radio

Many of the UK’s most recognisable voices began behind the modest microphones of hospital stations. Some of the most notable include:

Ken Bruce — began at Glasgow Hospital Broadcasting Service before becoming one of the most enduring voices on BBC Radio 2.

Chris Moyles — started at Wakefield’s Broadcast to Hospitals (WBH) before rising to BBC Radio 1 Breakfast fame.

Scott Mills — joined Southampton Hospital Radio at 16, launching a career that led to Radio 1, Radio 2, and national TV.

Huw Stephens — began at Rookwood Hospital Radio in Cardiff before becoming a champion of new music on Radio 1 and 6 Music.

Graham Norton — volunteered at Cork’s hospital radio service before becoming one of the UK’s most recognisable broadcasters.

Simon Mayo — cut his teeth at Southlands Hospital Radio in Worthing before his long BBC career.

Phillip Schofield — began at Hospital Radio Plymouth before becoming a household name on national TV.

Each of them has spoken about the same thing: hospital radio teaches intimacy, empathy, timing, and the art of speaking to one person — not an audience. It’s where broadcasters learn that radio is not a performance, but a relationship.

The story begins in 1972, when volunteers converted a disused butchers shop and a group emerged who converted a butcher’s shop in the grounds of Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea, into a tiny studio. The new service was called Radio Southlands, broadcasting just a few hours a week to patients in Southlands Hospital.

In the early to mid eighties it became clear that there was a similar need in the larger Worthing Hospital. This led to Worthing Hospital Radio launching on the 11^th April 1986. The first studios were located inside Zachary Merton Hospital, the small community/rehabilitation hospital on the north side of Worthing, before it moved into Park Avenue, close to the main hospital and later into the Adur Civic Centre in Shoreham.

Through the 1980s, the station grew in ambition and profile. As the service expanded to cover Worthing Hospitals, it evolved into Coastway Hospital Radio, reflecting its wider coastal audience and modernised output and extended it service to Sussex County Hospital and the Sussex Eye Hospital in Brighton.

In 2004, the station rebranded again as Seaside Hospital Radio, the name it still carries today. It now broadcasts 24 hours a day, online and via hospital systems, run entirely by volunteers and still rooted in its founding mission: to comfort, distract, and accompany patients through music, conversation, and companionship.

Hour One

Peggy Lee – “Fever” (Single, 1958)

James Taylor – “You’ve Got a Friend” (Mud Slide Slim, 1971)

The Beatles – “Getting Better” (Sgt. Pepper’s, 1967)

Charlie Dore – “Pilot of the Airwaves” (Where to Now, 1979)

Frank Sinatra – “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, 1956)

Alma Cogan – “Dreamboat” (Single, 1955)

The Seekers – “Georgy Girl” (Georgy Girl OST, 1966)

Leo Sayer – “Orchard Road” (Have You Ever Been in Love, 1983)

David Soul – “Don’t Give Up on Us” (Single, 1976)

Van Morrison – “And the Healing Has Begun” (Into the Music, 1979)

The Hollies – “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (Single, 1969)

Hour Two

Mama Cass – “It’s Getting Better” (Bubblegum, Lemonade &… Something for Mama, 1969)

The Beach Boys – “God Only Knows” (Pet Sounds, 1966)

The Beautiful South – “Song for Whoever” (Welcome to the Beautiful South, 1989)

John Miles – “Music” (Rebel, 1976)

ABC – “The Look of Love” (The Lexicon of Love, 1982)

Culture Club – “Time (Clock of the Heart)” (Single, 1982)

Spandau Ballet – “True” (True, 1983)

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – “This Guy’s in Love with You” (Single, 1968)

Glen Campbell – “Wichita Lineman” (Wichita Lineman, 1968)

Adrian Gurvitz – “Classic (Extended Mix)” (Single, 1982)

Sarah Vaughan – “Fever (Adam Freeland Remix)” (Remix, 2025)