Hymns on Sunday Podcast Options

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. It's Ascension Sunday this week, and our hymns include Charles Wesley's Hail the day that sees Him rise, and an Ascension hymn by New Zealand hymn writer… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. Two themes in this week's programme - thankfulness and (to match the season) harvest. Hymns include We plough the fields and scatter, Now thank we all our… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this week's programme we've hymns with a peace theme, and we'll hear some of the hymns that were sung at the first official ANZAC Day services held… Read more Audio

7:30 AM."Sing lustily and with a good courage", wrote Methodist leader John Wesley in his instructions to congregations on how to sing hymns. This week's selection for your best singing voice includes Praise… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. The programme includes Hugh Roberton's All in the April Evening, the Taize chant Sanctum Nomen Domini and an uplifting rendition of All Hail the Pow'r of… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. 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… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of tradition and modern hymns. It's Easter Sunday, so hymns with 'Alleluias' abound, including Jesus Christ is risen today, Jesus lives! and Low in the grave he lay. Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of tradition and modern hymns. Today's programme marks Palm Sunday, and includes a hymn that's been sung as a Palm Sunday processional since the 10th century - All glory, laud and honour… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of tradition and modern hymns. Some of the great Easter hymns in this week's programme, including O sacred head, My song is love unknown, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of tradition and modern hymns. In today's programme we've communion hymns, and there's a bracket of children's hymns including the Easter-themed There is a green hill. We'll also hear… Read more Audio

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7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. There's an impressively broad span of hymns in today's programme, ranging from the 10th century (The Lent Prose) right up to the 21st (Shirley Murray's… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week we finish off our Summer Listener Requests series, and mark the beginning of Lent with George Smyttan's hymn Forty Days and Forty Nights and the… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.This week's selection of listener requests includes Charles Wesley's hymns And can it be, and Jesu, lover of my soul. There's a rousing arrangement of Onward, Christian soldiers for brass band, and we… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.This week's selection of listener hymn requests includes Dorothy Buchanan's setting of Psalm 23, Hushed was the Evening Hymn by James Burns, and a rousing rendition of Jerusalem from the Choir of… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Our Summer Hymn Request programmes continue, and this week's selection includes some 20th century songs: Let bells peal forth by Peter Baelz, the gospel song Soon and very soon by Andraé Crouch, and… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week it's Programme 3 in our Summer Hymn Requests series, and listener choices include the Taizé chant O Christe Domine Jesu, Fanny Crosby's hymn To… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In the second programme of our Summer Hymn Requests series, you can hear an atmospheric performance of Let all mortal flesh keep silence by the Choir of… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week we've the first programme of our Summer Hymn Requests series. Listener choices include the psalm paraphrases The king of love my shepherd Is, and… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and contemporary hymns. This week we're looking ahead to the feast of the Epiphany, with carols including Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness, and As With Gladness… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.We've some great carols for singing along to in this week's selection, including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Ding Dong Merrily on High (for those with good lung capacity!) and O Come, All Ye Faithful… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this week's programme marking the third Sunday of Advent, you can hear the story behind Lewis Redner's tune 'St Louis', the first tune to be written O… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and modern hymns. In this week's programme we mark the second Sunday of Advent with hymns including Look Towards Christmas by Shirley Murray, Eleanor Farjeon's People Look… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.This week's selection of traditional and modern hymns marks the first Sunday of the Advent season, and includes O Come Emmanuel, Light of Lights, and Come Thou Long-expected Jesus. Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of traditional and contemporary hymns. It's Christ the King Sunday in the liturgical calendar, and we're marking the occasion with some suitably regal hymns including Praise my soul the… Read more Audio