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2:30 AM.Warm your voices on these cold winter mornings with some singing! Hymns in this episode include O for a thousand tongues to sing, Robert Lowry's How shall I keep from singing, and Let all the world in… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Today we're marking Matariki, midwinter and the Day of Prayer for Refugees and Migrants. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's Trinity Sunday, and this week's selection begins with Reginald Heber's great Trinitarian hymn Holy, holy, holy. There's also a hymn by New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod, and a contemporary… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Our Pentecost Sunday selection begins with plainchant from the 9th century - Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire - and moves through the centuries to Bernadette Farrell's 20th century hymn Spirit of… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's Ascension Sunday today - listen out for Hail the day that sees him rise, and New Zealander Marnie Barrell's hymn Christ ascends to God. We also mark the recent death of New Zealand music educator… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.In today's programme a Jewish cantor and a Methodist minister join forces, we've settings of Psalms 34 and 148, and there are hymns by New Zealand hymn writers Shirley Murray and David Burt. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.This week's programme gets off to a great start with the Huddersfield Choral Society's rousing rendition of Crown Him with many crowns. You can also hear hymns with a theme of light including Lead,… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Dedication hymns, spirituals, and a Charles Wesley favourite in this week's programme. And there's a hymn from the newly-released album Offering - it's a collection of gospel hymns performed by some… Read more Video, Audio

2:00 AM.Hymns of thankfulness in today's selection, along with some season-appropriate harvest hymns. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Today's selection includes hymns to mark Anzac Day on 25 April, there's a hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan (the music half of Gilbert and Sullivan) and a setting of Immortal, invisible that you don't hear… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.It's Easter Sunday, so expect plenty of hymns with 'Alleluias'! Read more Audio

7:00 AM.Palm Sunday favourites today, including All glory, laud and honour, and Ride on, ride on in majesty. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Some of the great Easter hymns today, including My song is love unknown, O sacred head, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Read more Video, Audio

5:00 PM.Today we've hymns by priests, Shakers and a disgruntled Quaker... Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Today's hymns focus on peace, unity and consolation. Read more Video, Audio

5:00 PM.In this programme we've psalm settings, hymns for Lent, and Irish hymns to celebrate St Patrick's Day. Read more Audio

6:00 PM.We're marking the beginning of Lent, there's a chant from the Taizé tradition and we get an insight into how American minister Robert Lowry wrote his hymns. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Hymns with a Nature theme feature today, as well as a couple of hymns by 18th century newspaper editor and poet James Montgomery. Find out why he ended up in prison - twice. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Evening hymns make a rare (but welcome) appearance this week, including John Ellerton's The Day Thou Gavest, Lord Is Ended. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Hymns from the 10th to 21st centuries in today's programme, including Stuart Townend's To you we bring our hymn of praise written in collaboration with Matt Maher and Kelly Minter in 2007. Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Hymns by the 'father of English hymnody' Isaac Watts, New Zealand hymn writer Jocelyn Marshall and composer of contemplative chants, Margaret Rizza feature in this episode. And find out which hymn… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.It's a celebration of psalms in this episode, with settings of Psalm 48, Psalm 96 and Psalm 121. We're also marking Waitangi Day with a hymn by Shirley Murray: God bless our land. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.In this programme of listener requests you can hear a beautifully atmospheric setting of Psalm 23 by Charles Hylton Stewart, and a hymn written by a Bishop of Calcutta. And there's a request dedicated… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Our listener requests continue this week, and include the always-popular Brother James' Air, and William How's For all the saints. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.A Taizé chant, the Seafarers' Hymn (Eternal Father), and a psalm from the Scottish Psalter are among today's listener requests. And there's a rousing rendition of Timothy Dudley-Smith's hymn When the… Read more Audio