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Hymns on Sunday, 5 June 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns to mark Pentecost Sunday this week and, on this Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Birthday Weekend, we’ll hear some of the Queen’s favourite hymns along with a hymn sung at her coronation in 1953. Read more Video, Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 29 May 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension in this episode, including Charles Wesley’s Hail the day that sees him rise, and Christ ascends to God by New Zealander Marnie Barrell. And we mark the… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 May 2022
4:15 AM.Today’s programme begins with a hymn that’s been covered by the likes of Neil Diamond, Judy Collins, Kenny Rogers, and maybe most famously by Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) in the 1970s: Morning has broken… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 15 May 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns with a thankfulness theme in this week's programme, as well as some harvest hymns to reflect those cooler days and autumn colours that are all around us at the moment. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 8 May 2022
4:15 AM.Celebrating Mother's Day this week with some hymns of praise to Mary, and Shirley Murray’s Loving Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 1 May 2022
4:15 AM.Beekeeper, comic opera composer and professor of anatomy: just some of the interesting occupations of the people involved in this week’s selection of hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 24 April 2022
4:15 AM.In today’s programme we mark Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns including O God, our help in ages past and Shirley Murray’s New Zealand Anzac hymn, Honour the dead. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 April 2022
4:15 AM.Celebrate Easter Sunday with hymns including Jesus Christ is risen today, The day of resurrection and Shirley Murray’s Christ is alive. Read more Audio
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Good Friday Hymns, 15 April 2022
7:30 AM.Hymns to mark this important date in the Christian calendar, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 April 2022
4:15 AM.It’s Palm Sunday today, the Sunday before Easter that commemorates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Hymns include All glory, laud and honour, and Ride on! King Jesus. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 April 2022
4:15 AM.Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, including Cecil Frances Alexander’s well-known hymn There is a green hill far away. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 27 March 2022
4:15 AM.This week’s programme includes some communion hymns, there’s a favourite hymn by Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier – Dear Lord and father of mankind – and we continue our series of Psalm 23 settings with… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 March 2022
4:15 AM.There's an Irish flavour to this week's hymns, marking St Patrick's Day on 17 March. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 13 March 2022
4:15 AM.We’re continuing our series of Psalm 23 (The Lord’s My Shepherd) settings with My shepherd will supply my need. It was written in the early 18th century by Isaac Watts, who was an important figure in… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 6 March 2022
4:15 AM.We’ve hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent this week, there are some peace-themed hymns, and you can hear another setting of Psalm 23 The Lord’s My Shepherd. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 27 February 2022
4:15 AM.We’re marking Transfiguration Sunday this week with hymns including Immortal, invisible and Christ, whose glory fills the sky. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 February 2022
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’re featuring evening hymns, and you can hear a setting of Psalm 23 – it’ll be the third in our series so far. We’re also commemorating the Feast Day of German theologian… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 13 February 2022
4:15 AM.In this week’s programme, you can hear two settings of Psalm 121: ‘I will lift mine eyes unto the hills’. One’s from the 18th century and the other was written especially for the Queen’s Silver… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 6 February 2022
4:15 AM.We’re marking Waitangi Day with a selection of hymns featuring New Zealand hymn writers and New Zealand choirs. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 January 2022
4:15 AM.Hymns spanning nine centuries in this week's Summer Requests programme, from Jerusalem the golden with words by 12th century monk Bernard of Cluny to a 1970s folk-style setting of the Lord's Prayer. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 23 January 2022
4:15 AM.Plenty of well-loved favourites in this week’s programme of listener requests, including The old rugged cross, What a friend we have in Jesus, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 16 January 2022
4:15 AM.A morning hymn, an evening hymn and a hymn from the Scottish Psalter – just some of the listener requests in this week’s Hymns on Sunday. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 January 2022
4:15 AM.Another great selection of listener requests today, including a benediction by John Rutter and a calypso setting of the Lord’s Prayer. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 January 2022
4:15 AM.We’re continuing our Summer Requests programmes in Hymns on Sunday, and this week you can hear wedding hymns, a 20th century classic and a rousing rendition of For all the saints. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 December 2021
4:15 AM.Our Summer Requests programmes begin today, with listener choices including To be a pilgrim and John Rutter's setting of For the beauty of the earth. Read more Audio