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Hymns on Sunday, 17 March 2024
4:15 AM.19th-century English architect James Edmeston wrote around 2000 hymns - it was said that he produced one every Sunday. We'll hear one of his best-known hymns this week: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 March 2024
4:15 AM.It’s the Fourth Sunday in Lent, known as Laetare (‘rejoice’ in Latin) Sunday. Hymns include Praise, my soul, the king of heaven and the psalm paraphrase Praise God, for he is kind. And we remember New… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 March 2024
4:15 AM.This week, we’ve hymns that focus on peace, unity and consolation, including Make me a channel of your peace (The Prayer of St Francis), and Margaret Rizza’s In the Lord is my joy and salvation. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 February 2024
4:15 AM.This week, we've a hymn by Dunedin GP Nigel Eastgate; two different settings of Psalm 130 - Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; and a hymn from Hatea Kapa Haka: E kino koe te ingoa nei. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 February 2024
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’re marking the First Sunday in Lent, there’s a hymn written for Human Rights Day, and we get an insight into how American minister Robert Lowry wrote his hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 February 2024
4:15 AM.There’s a reflective feel to this week’s selection of listener requests, with hymns including There is a balm in Gilead, Nearer my God to thee, and Margaret Rizza’s Prayer for Peace. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 4 February 2024
4:15 AM.It's all about descants today - those soaring vocal lines above the melody that are often sung on the final verse of hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 January 2024
4:15 AM.There are sea-related hymns in this week’s programme of requests, including Eternal Father, strong to save (also known as ‘the Navy Hymn’) and Will your anchor hold in the storms of life. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 January 2024
4:15 AM.A memory of the Pope's visit to Cardiff in the 1980s, a favourite hymn from Bible Class days, and a dedication to a beloved grandfather: some of the inspirations behind this week's hymn requests. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 January 2024
4:15 AM.A gentle start to this week's hymn requests programme, with an arrangement of Eleanor Farjeon's Morning has broken sung by the Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 January 2024
4:15 AM.One of the earliest surviving Christian hymns, a hymn to mark Epiphany, and St Francis of Assisi’s hymn All creatures of our God and king – all in this week’s programme of Summer Hymn Requests. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 31 December 2023
4:15 AM.Summer Hymn Requests begin today: for the next month or so, we’ll be playing your choices. Today’s programme includes Our life has its seasons by Shirley Murray, Charles Wesley’s hymn And can it be… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 December 2023
4:15 AM.A special edition of Hymns of Sunday for Christmas Day. Sing along to favourite carols including o come, all ye faithful, Angels we have heard on high, and Joy to the world. Read more Video, Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 24 December 2023
4:15 AM.What's the connection between the well-loved Christmas song O Holy Night and the early days of broadcasting? Find out in today's programme for the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Read more Video, Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 December 2023
4:15 AM.Rejoice - it's Gaudete Sunday! Hymns for the Third Sunday in Advent include John Rutter's Angels' Carol, Rejoice! Rejoice at Christmas time by New Zealand hymn writer Bill Wallace and Tell out, my… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 December 2023
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme for the Second Sunday of Advent, we look towards Christmas with a carol by Shirley Murray and Jillian Bray; there’s an atmospheric recording in Westminster Abbey of Let all… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 December 2023
4:15 AM.We're celebrating the First Sunday of Advent today with some favourite Advent hymns including O Come Emmanuel, and Of the Father's Heart Begotten. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 November 2023
4:15 AM.It's Christ the King Sunday, and we're also marking feast days for Saints Clement and Cecilia, and hymn writer Isaac Watts. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 November 2023
4:15 AM.In 2017, Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor. It's a Sunday set aside in the Catholic liturgical calendar to reflect on how poverty is at the very heart of the Gospel. This year's theme… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 November 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns of reassurance, comfort and hope in this week's programme, including Christ is made the sure foundation, Shirley Murray's Hope is our song and the Boys' Brigade favourite Will your anchor hold.
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 November 2023
4:15 AM.Celebrating the Feast of All Saints this week, with hymns including For all the saints and Let saints on earth in concert sing. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 29 October 2023
4:15 AM.Margaret Rizza’s Prayer for Peace features in this week’s programme: Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace, let peace fill our hearts, our world, our universe: peace, peace, peace. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 October 2023
4:15 AM.It's World Mission Sunday. This special day in the Catholic liturgical calendar was created by Pope Pius XI in the mid-1920s as a day of prayer for missions. This year’s theme, chosen by the current… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 15 October 2023
4:15 AM.In the days when bills came in envelopes through the letterbox, a young musician from Northern Ireland used the back of an electricity bill to write down some melody ideas. In this week’s programme… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 8 October 2023
4:15 AM.Arthur Sullivan was the music half of the successful theatrical partnership, Gilbert and Sullivan. Alongside those catchy songs from Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, he also wrote hymn tunes. You… Read more Audio