Hymns

Hear some of Hymns on Sunday listeners' favourite hymns today in the second Summer Hymn Requests programme. Choices include a hymn with a traditional Ghanaian tune, as well as another setting of Psalm… Audio

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… 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… Audio

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

We're playing favourites today! The BBC's Songs of Praise has just revealed the UK's 10 favourite hymns, and we'll be counting them down to Number One. See if your favourites are there. Video, Audio

Sing along this week to some well-known favourites including And can it be and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. And add in some new favourites with Bernadette Farrell’s God beyond all names and O… Video, Audio

Brighten your Sunday morning with some light-related hymns. This week's programme includes John Henry Newman's Lead, kindly light and the South African hymn Siyahamba (We are walking in the light of… Audio

We're marking the final day of Maori Language Week with hymns sung by the New Zealand Youth Choir and Auckland choir Viva Voce. And there's a powerful rendition of Ma te marie from Stan Walker with… Video, Audio

A mix of 'ancient and modern' in today's selection of hymns, from John Neale's translation of an early Latin hymn (Christ is made the sure foundation) to Shirley Murray's God bless our land. Audio

Some hymns to celebrate the ever-increasing signs of Spring; Henry Baker's setting of Psalm 23 The king of love my shepherd is; and a 7-verse rendition of Charles Wesley's O for a thousand tongues by… Audio

Hymns about pilgrims and pilgrimage feature this week, including Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart, and John Bunyan's He who would valiant be. Audio