Hymns on Sunday

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. Read more 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… Read more 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. Read more 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. Read more Audio

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

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

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

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