Hymns

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's Queen's Birthday Weekend, and today we'll hear a couple of the Queen's favourite hymns. There are also hymns to mark Pentecost Sunday, including… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We're marking the Feast of the Ascension today with hymns including All hail the day that sees him rise, New Zealand hymn writer Marnie Barrell's Christ… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week's programme begins with one of John Mason Neale's many Latin hymn translations: Christ is made the sure foundation. You can also hear hymns by… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. 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… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We've hymns with a thankfulness theme in today's programme, as well as some harvest hymns in keeping with the autumn season. The Scottish Festival Singers… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Today's programme includes some hymns with themes of hope: Lord of all hopefulness, and Shirley Murray's Hope is our song. Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We're into the period of Eastertide (the 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday) and today's programme includes some resurrection-themed hymns as… Audio

Today we're marking Palm Sunday with a great selection of uplifting and triumphal hymns. The Choir of Westminster Abbey sings Rejoice! The Lord is King, there's a spiritual from the Mormon Tabernacle… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Hymns for the fifth Sunday in Lent include My song is love unknown, Glory be to Jesus, and Isaac Watts' great Easter hymn When I survey the wondrous cross.

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In today's programme we have some communion hymns, there's a psalm paraphrase from the Scottish Psalter, and we'll hear from some hymn writers who prove… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this programme we've two settings of Psalm 130 to mark the Third Sunday in Lent, as well as some Irish hymns to for St Patrick's Day (17 March). Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Hymns for the Second Sunday in Lent include The Lent Prose and My faith looks up to thee, and we've a Taize chant from Margaret Rizza and the St Thomas… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's the first Sunday in Lent, and our hymns with a Lenten theme include Forty days and forty nights. We're also marking St David's Day (1 March) with a… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's a bit of a classical composers' Who's Who this week, with texts set to tunes by the likes of Handel, Holst and Haydn as well as some by composers… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns, including a hymn from the 13th century and a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley's well-known text Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Audio

We've several hymns by the great 18th century Non-Conformist hymn writer Isaac Watts in this week's programme, as well as one by his friend, Philip Doddridge. There are also some more recently written… Audio

Our final Summer Requests programme includes a 16th century prayer set to music by John Rutter, Be still, my soul sung by the English boys' choir Libera, and we highlight an important celebration for… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Listener requests continue this week, and include the modern classic In Christ alone, as well as Isaac Watts' hymn When I survey the wondrous cross sung in… Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We'll hear Henry Lyte's hymn Abide with me in this programme of listener requests, as well as a rousing rendition of Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week's Summer Requests programme includes several hymns by the great Methodist hymn writer Charles Wesley: Father of everlasting grace, And can it be… Audio