Hymns
Hymns on Sunday, 4 September 2022
The Season of Creation has begun (1 September to 4 October in the church calendar) and this week’s programme includes some creation-themed favourites. Sing along to How great thou art, All things… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 28 August 2022
We're straight in with the big tunes this week. Sing along to Hubert Parry's well-loved melody, Jerusalem, paired with words by Arthur Grimshaw: Sing to the Lord a joyful song. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 21 August 2022
One hymn, two writers, 12 verses... that’s the hymn Crown Him with many crowns. We’ll hear three of those verses in today’s programme. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 14 August 2022
We’re marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary with hymns including Immaculate Mary and Mō Maria. It’s an especially important time for New Zealand Catholics as St Mary of the Angels Church in… Video, Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 7 August 2022
Sing along this week to hymns marking the Feast of the Transfiguration (6 August). Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 31 July 2022
Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven is one of the most popular hymns in English-speaking Christian denominations. In today’s programme we take a look at John Goss, who composed its… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 24 July 2022
There's a focus this week on hymns that are inspired by the psalms, including All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100), and I to the hills will lift mine eyes, from Psalm 121. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 17 July 2022
Plenty of variety in this week’s selection of hymns, which include a Taizé chant, a hymn from the Iona community in Scotland, and Charles Wesley’s great hymn And Can It Be. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 10 July 2022
In this week’s programme we’re marking Sea Sunday – also described as a ‘Day of Prayer for Seafarers’. It’s a time to remember and celebrate those whose workplace is the sea, with hymns including… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 3 July 2022
It’s the middle of winter, and we’re celebrating the cold and dark in this week’s programme with some carols of the snowy variety: it’s the perfect time of year to sing In the Bleak Midwinter! Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 26 June 2022
The season of Matariki has begun. It’s a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future. We touch on some of those Matariki themes in… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 19 June 2022
When Sister Suzanne Toolan wrote I am the Bread of Life in the 1960s she almost threw the song away, thinking it wasn’t very good. Since then, it’s been sung all over the world in many denominations… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 12 June 2022
Celebrate Trinity Sunday in this episode, with Trinitarian hymns including Reginald Heber's Holy, holy, holy and Firmly I believe, and truly by Cardinal John Henry Newman. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 5 June 2022
Hymns to mark Pentecost Sunday this week and, on this Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Birthday Weekend, we’ll hear some of the Queen’s favourite hymns along with a hymn sung at her coronation in 1953. Video, Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 29 May 2022
Hymns to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension in this episode, including Charles Wesley’s Hail the day that sees him rise, and Christ ascends to God by New Zealander Marnie Barrell. And we mark the… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 22 May 2022
Today’s programme begins with a hymn that’s been covered by the likes of Neil Diamond, Judy Collins, Kenny Rogers, and maybe most famously by Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) in the 1970s: Morning has broken… Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 15 May 2022
Hymns with a thankfulness theme in this week's programme, as well as some harvest hymns to reflect those cooler days and autumn colours that are all around us at the moment. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 8 May 2022
Celebrating Mother's Day this week with some hymns of praise to Mary, and Shirley Murray’s Loving Spirit. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 1 May 2022
Beekeeper, comic opera composer and professor of anatomy: just some of the interesting occupations of the people involved in this week’s selection of hymns. Audio
Hymns on Sunday, 24 April 2022
In today’s programme we mark Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns including O God, our help in ages past and Shirley Murray’s New Zealand Anzac hymn, Honour the dead. Audio