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12:00 PM.Good news from The Graduate Choir, a carol for Epiphany by Peter Cornelius, and an atmospheric setting of Joseph Parry's tune 'Aberystwyth' - some of the treats in store in today's Summer Hymn… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Summer Hymns Requests begins today. Our first programme of listener favourites includes Hail, Queen of Heaven (to mark the Feast of the Solemnity of Mary on 1 January), Glorious things of thee are… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Some great carols to sing along to today - guaranteed to give your lungs a good workout! Join us for Ding Dong! Merrily on high, O Holy Night, It came upon a midnight clear and more. Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Sing along to some New Zealand carols today, including Shirley Murray's Child of Christmas Story and Rejoice, rejoice at Christmas time by Bill Wallace. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Our celebration of the Advent season continues today with a lovely setting of The Angel Gabriel performed by children's choir Gondwana Voices, New Zealand hymnwriter Shirley Murray's Look towards… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Plenty of Advent carols and hymns today to mark the first Sunday of the season, including an atmospheric rendition of O Come, O Come Emmanuel from the Choir of Wellington Cathedral. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.We're marking Christ the King Sunday with some appropriately regal hymns. Sing along to Rejoice! he Lord is King, and Crown him with many crowns. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Hymns by Charles Wesley, and some hymn-singing instructions from his brother John in today's programme. You can also hear Deep in the human heart by NZ hymn writer Bill Wallace, and two settings of… Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Hymns with a peace theme feature in today's programme for Remembrance Sunday, marking 100 years since the signing of the Armistice which ended hostilities in World War I. Read more Audio

3:00 PM.Saints, souls and Martin Luther feature in today's programme, marking All Saints' Day (1 November), All Souls' Day (2 November) and Reformation Day (31 October). Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Hymns with a Welsh connection feature in the programme. You'll hear the traditional Welsh tune Ar hyd y nos, as well as William Williams' great hymn Guide me, O thou great Redeemer. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Today's episode includes hymns with a William Blake connection, psalm settings, a Taize chant and the story behind Sanford Fillmore Bennett's gospel song In the Sweet By and By. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Hear New Zealand choirs The Handel Quire and The Celebration Singers in today's programme. And there's a special massed choir performance of For all the saints from Professor Peter Godfrey's memorial… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Spirituals from the Moses Hogan Chorale, an arrangement for brass band of Aberystwyth (the tune for Jesu, Lover of My Soul) and a rousing rendition of Walter Smith's Immortal, Invisible from the… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.What's the connection between Charles Wesley's hymn And can it be and the plant species Sagina? Find out in today's programme. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Hymns from across the centuries today, from Jerusalem the golden written by 12th century Benedictine monk Bernard of Cluny to Michael Perry's 1980s hymn Like a mighty river flowing. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.We celebrate Maori Language Week today with a song to the Holy Spirit by Ngapo Wehi - Wairua tapu. And find out which setting of Edward Perronet's All hail the power of Jesu's name was described as… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Today's selection of traditional and modern hymns includes Reginald Heber's great Trinitarian hymn Holy, holy, holy as well as hymns by 19th century newspaper editor and poet James Montgomery. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Celebrate the official start of Spring with hymns on Nature, including Shirley Murray's The Spring has come and For the beauty of the earth by Folliott Pierpoint. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Hymns of hope and hymns on prayer feature in today's programme, including Anonymous 4's a capella version of the gospel hymn Sweet hour of prayer. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Sing along this week to hymns with tunes that once accompanied folk songs. And we mark two church calendar dates - Bernard of Clairvaux's feast day on 20 August, and the Marian feast day Queenship of… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Hymns of thankfulness feature in today's programme, along with several settings of the Psalms. Read more Audio

9:38 AM.It's Transfiguration Sunday this week, commemorating the New Testament event when Jesus is transfigured: "His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light" [Matt 17:2].
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7:30 AM.This week's selection of traditional and modern hymns begins with two settings of Psalm 104, there are hymns with a Welsh connection, and you can hear a beautiful rendition of the spiritual There is a… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Some hymns about creation in this week's programme, including Fairest Lord Jesus and The Spacious Firmament On High. Read more Video, Audio