Hymns
Hymns on Sunday 18 November 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 11 November 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 4 November 2018
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). Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 28 October 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 21 October 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 14 October 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 7 October 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 30 September 2018
What's the connection between Charles Wesley's hymn And can it be and the plant species Sagina? Find out in today's programme. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 23 September 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 16 September 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 9 September 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 2 September 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday for 26 August 2018
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. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 19 August 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 12 August 2018
Hymns of thankfulness feature in today's programme, along with several settings of the Psalms. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 5 August 2018
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].
We're… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 28 July 2018
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… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 22 July 2018
Some hymns about creation in this week's programme, including Fairest Lord Jesus and The Spacious Firmament On High. Video, Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 15 July 2018
Two millennium-related hymns in today's programme: New Zealand hymn writer Jocelyn Marshall's hymn God of Ages was one of the 16 top hymns selected in a British Millenium Hymn Competition back in… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 8 July 2018
The version of Crown Him with many crowns you'll find in hymnbooks is most probably the work of not one but two writers - Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring. Sing along to three of the possible twelve… Audio