Hymns on Sunday

It's the first of our Summer Hymn Requests today. Listener choices include Hail, Queen of Heaven (to mark the Feast of the Solemnity of Mary coming up on 1 January), as well as Christmas carols All… Read more Audio

If you haven’t had the chance to have a good Christmas singalong yet, then today’s programme is especially for you! Lots of the well-known carols, with a sprinkling of ones you'll want to get to know… Read more Audio

Sing some New Zealand Christmas carols this week including one that features pohutukawa, New Zealand's Christmas tree. Read more Audio

Celebrate the season of Advent today with Shirley Murray's Look towards Christmas, and an atmospheric rendition of Gabriel's Message performed by children's choir Gondwana Voices. Read more Audio

It's the First Sunday of Advent, the beginning of a season of waiting and expectation leading up to Christmas. And the time to sing all those great Advent hymns - including O come, Emmanuel and Come,… Read more Audio

It's a busy time in the liturgical calendar this week, with hymns to mark Christ the King Sunday, St Clement's Day and hymn writer Isaac Watts. Read more Audio

Hymns by writers from across the centuries today, including the 'Bard of Methodism' Charles Wesley, and New Zealand hymn writers Bill Wallace and Colin Gibson. Read more Audio

It's Remembrance Sunday, and today's hymns to mark the occasion include O God, our help in ages past and The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended. Read more Audio

In this week's programme, hymns to mark All Saints' Day and Reformation Day. And there's a great arrangement for brass band of Handel Parker's Deep Harmony. Read more Audio

Lots of good hymns to sing along to in today's programme, as well as some American folk hymns and one of my all-time favourite hymns. And I'll be giving details of how you can take part in our Summer… Read more Audio

Hymns by St Francis of Assisi, Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley in this week's programme. And you can hear New Zealand choirs The Handel Quire and The Celebration Singers. Read more Audio

Today there's 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 Cowper. Read more Audio