Hymns

This week's programme features resurrection-themed hymns for Eastertide, an atmospheric rendition of Amazing Grace by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and a benediction from the 1662 Book of… Audio

Hymns to celebrating Easter Sunday include two New Zealand hymns, a hymn from the 8^th century and the 21^st century classic In Christ Alone. Audio

Hymns for Palm Sunday today, celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and marking the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Audio

Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20^th century classic, The servant king.

This week we’ve communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and some hymns from writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Audio

There’s a ‘wealth of Williams’ in this week’s programme – hymn writers, arrangers and hymn tune composers. Including William Williams, one of the leaders of the Methodist revival in Wales in the 18^th… Audio

In this week’s programme we’ve hymns for the second Sunday in Lent, and we’re marking some recent dates in the liturgical calendar: World Day of Prayer on 3 March and St David’s Day on 1 March. Audio

Hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent, and a hymn by Shirley Murray that turned out to be much more successful than she expected. Audio

Hymns inspired by Psalm 150, Praise God in his sanctuary, feature in this week’s programme. Audio

In our final programme of Summer Hymn Requests you can hear the Seafarers’ Hymn (Eternal Father), Stuart Townend’s O, my soul, arise and a setting of Psalm 150 to mark the 100^th birthday of the Lawton… Audio

Sing along this week to Shirley Murray's God bless our land, written especially to mark Waitangi Day. Audio

Back in the 1920s, Rev William Fullerton from Belfast set a hymn he’d written to a traditional Irish tune: Londonderry Air. You can hear the result in this week’s programme. Audio

There's nothing quite like the sound of a Welsh male voice choir singing hymns! Hear the Treorchy Male Choir sing Isaac Watts' hymn When I survey the wondrous cross in this week's programme of… Audio

A setting of Psalm 23, a hymn by New Zealand writer Joy Cowley and a confirmation hymn - just some of the listener requests in this week's programme. Audio

Hymns sung at weddings and memories of enthusiastic school singing are some of the inspirations behind our listener requests this week. Audio

Summer Requests programmes begin today, with listener choices including All creatures of our God and king and In Christ alone. Audio

Lots of well-known favourites in this Christmas Day edition of Hymns on Sunday. Sing along with choirs from New Zealand and around the world. Audio

Carols for the Fourth Sunday in Advent include Love came down at Christmas and It came upon a midnight clear. And we remember New Zealand hymn writer and composer Colin Gibson MNZM. Video, Audio

Rejoice! It's Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete is 'rejoice' in Latin). Hymns include Tell out my soul, the Pohutukawa Carol and an arrangement of The First Nowell for brass band. Video, Audio

When hymn writer Shirley Murray was on an editorial panel preparing a collection of NZ-written carols in the 1990s, she found there weren't many with an Advent theme. So she wrote one! You can hear… Audio