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2:30 AM.We're focussing on hymns inspired by the Psalms in this week. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Keep your vocal cords in shape with this week's selection of hymns, including Immortal, Invisible and What a friend we have in Jesus. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns with the theme of 'mercy' feature in Hymns on Sunday this week, and there's a 20th century classic which became famous during the Billy Graham Crusades of the 1940s. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Something for the shortest day in Hymns on Sunday this week - In the bleak midwinter. It's one of those snow-filled Northern hemisphere carols that sound best sung on a wintry day... Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns of thankfulness today, including New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod's Thank you for the night and a particularly joyful recording of Now thank we all our God by the Huddersfield Choral Society. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's Trinity Sunday, and this week's selection has hymns to mark the occasion including Reginald Heber's great Trinitarian hymn Holy, holy, holy. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns spanning 11 centuries in this week's programme to mark Pentecost Sunday. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns to mark Ascension Sunday in today's edition, including Hail the day that sees him rise by Charles Wesley, and New Zealand hymn writer Marnie Barrell's Christ ascends to God. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.In this week's Hymns on Sunday Home Edition, we bring the magnificent acoustic of St Paul's Cathedral, London, right into your living room with a performance of Psalm 23 by the choir. And you can sing… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.There's a reflective feel to this week's episode, with hymns by Bernadette Farrell (God Beyond All Names, and O God, You Search Me), and a beautiful setting of Be Still, My Soul by New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.Two millennium-related hymns in today's programme: New Zealander Jocelyn Marshall's God of Ages was one of the 16 top hymns selected in a British Millennium Hymn Competition back in 2000. And Howard… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Today's selection includes hymns to mark Anzac Day on 25 April, there's a hymn tune by Arthur Sullivan (the music half of Gilbert and Sullivan) and a setting of Immortal, Invisible that we should hear… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.The programme includes some psalm-based hymns, an atmospheric setting of Amazing Grace, and Timothy Dudley-Smith's hymn, O Christ the same, which is paired with a tune composer Hubert Parry described… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Today's Easter Day Church service, repeated from 2017, is from Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland. This Anglican service is conducted by the Right Rev. Ross Bay, Bishop of Auckland.  Read more Audio, Gallery

2:30 AM.It's Easter Sunday, so expect plenty of hymns with 'Alleluias'! Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Palm Sunday favourites today, including All glory, laud and honour, and Ride on, ride on in majesty. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Some of the great hymns for the weeks leading up to Easter today, including My song is love unknown, O sacred head, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's the fourth Sunday in Lent - Laetare Sunday. Laetare means 'rejoice' in Latin, and there's a good selection of uplifting hymns in today's programme. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Psalm settings, hymns for Lent and some Irish hymns today - looking ahead to St Patrick's Day on 17 March. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.It's hymns by her today - we focus on women hymn writers, including contemporary writers Shirley Murray and Bernadette Farrell. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Many occasions to mark in today's programme: It's the first Sunday in Lent; it's also St David's Day; and coming up on 3 March in the liturgical calendar is the commemoration day for John and Charles… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Maori hymns, hymns from the Scottish Psalter, 20th century hymns and a hymn tune described by composer Edward Elgar as "the finest in English hymnody" - all in today's programme. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Sing along today to hymns about singing God's praises, including Charles Wesley's O for a thousand tongues to sing, Psalm 96 O sing unto the Lord a new song, and Robert Lowry's How can I keep from… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's our final Summer Requests programme today, and the list includes favourite hymns Crown him with many crowns, Abide with me, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Today's listener requests programme includes George Herbert's setting of Psalm 23 - The God of love my shepherd is and a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley's famous hymn Love divine, all loves… Read more Audio