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7:30 AM.It's the first of our Summer Hymn Request programmes today, and all of today's selection is chosen by our listeners. Hymns include Tell out, my soul, Charles Wesley's Love divine and the American folk… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Today's selection of hymns for the fourth Sunday in Advent includes the Elora Singers' beautiful performance of Aldophe Adam's O Holy Night. And we look ahead in the Christmas season with a couple of… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.For the third Sunday in Advent, we've carols and hymns from all around the world including Shirley Murray's Child of Christmas Story, the American carol O little town of Bethlehem, and The Huron Carol… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Hymns and carols for the Advent season in today's programme, including Shirley Murray's Look towards Christmas, People look East sung by The Linden Singers, and the 4th century hymn Come, thou… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.To mark the Feast of Christ the King, today's selection of traditional and modern hymns includes Rejoice! The Lord is King, and Crown Him With Many Crowns. Also in the programme, some plainchant and a… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Some hymns from a very famous wedding service in this week's programme - on November the 20th it's 70 years since Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this week's programme we mark Remembrance Sunday with Isaac Watts' hymn O God, our help in ages past. And there's a toe-tapping setting of Psalm 23 The… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We're marking All Saints' Day this week with some suitably saint-themed hymns, including Let saints on earth, Ye watchers and ye holy ones and For all the… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.This week's selection of traditional and modern hymns includes Martin Luther's great hymn A mighty fortress is our God, to mark Reformation Day on 31 October. There's also an arrangement for brass… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Sing along this week to well-known favourites Praise, my soul, the king of heaven, The God of Abraham praise and Immortal, Invisible. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Music from the Taize tradition, psalms from the Genevan and Scottish psalters, and some hymns from the Olney Hymnbook by John Newton and his friend William… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Some peace-related hymns in this week's programme, as well as hymns to mark the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi - All creatures of our God and king, and… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.This week's selection of traditional and modern hymns includes spirituals from the Kansas City Chorale, hymns with a pilgrim theme, and an uplifting rendition of Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week, a morning hymn (to ease you into the start of Daylight Saving), hymns inspired by the Psalms and by Nature, and a favourite hymn by American… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We're marking Maori Language Week (it's the final day today) with a Maori prayer, and a song to the Holy Spirit by Ngapo Wehi. Also in the programme, two… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We're focussing on women hymn writers today, including contemporary writers such as Shirley Murray and Bernadette Farrell as well as some Victorian-era… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Some familiar favourites in today's programme, including the 'Old Hundredth' (All people that on earth do dwell), Be thou my vision performed by the… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.There's a focus on the pipe organ in today's selection of traditional and modern hymns. Our recordings include organs from Westminster Abbey, St John's Church, Elora, Wells Cathedral, and St Paul's… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A hymn to celebrate the first signs of Spring begins today's selection of traditional and modern hymns - Eleanor Farjeon's Morning has broken. There's also a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley's… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.There's a theme of 'mercy' running through today's selection of traditional and modern hymns. Hymns include Spirit of mercy, truth and love from the Foundling Hospital Hymnbook, Frederick Faber's… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.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… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.In this week's selection, you can hear hymns of comfort and calm, hymns related to St Francis of Assisi (the patron saint of all creatures), and a joyful setting of Psalm 47 - O clap your hands… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. We've hymns about singing in this week's programme - a great thing to do on a cold winter's morning! Hymns include O for a thousand tongues to sing, How… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In today's programme you can hear a hymn that resulted from the efforts of a Jewish cantor and a Methodist preacher, metrical settings of psalms 34 and… Read more Audio