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Hymns on Sunday, 4 June 2023
4:15 AM.It’s Trinity Sunday, celebrating the three persons of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 May 2023
4:15 AM.Celebrating Samoan Language Week and the Feast of Pentecost with hymns including Vivi’ I Ia Ma Fa’afetai, Breathe on me, breath of God, and Spirit of God, rest on your people. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 May 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns for Ascension Sunday include Marnie Barrell’s Christ ascends to God, Hail the day that sees him rise by Charles Wesley and a hymn by his colleague, Edward Perronet. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 May 2023
4:15 AM.We're marking Mother's Day with hymns to Mary, and Shirley Murray's Loving Spirit. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 May 2023
4:15 AM.Music plays an important role in the coronation of King Charles III – and there are some hymns in the service. We’ll hear two of them in this week’s programme. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 April 2023
4:15 AM.The days are getting shorter – and colder – and autumn colours are all around. The perfect time for harvest hymns! Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 23 April 2023
4:15 AM.We look ahead to Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns sung at the very first Anzac Day service in 1916 (held in Christchurch Cathedral) and peace-themed hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 16 April 2023
4:15 AM.This week's programme features resurrection-themed hymns for Eastertide, an atmospheric rendition of Amazing Grace by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, and a benediction from the 1662 Book of… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 April 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns to celebrating Easter Sunday include two New Zealand hymns, a hymn from the 8th century and the 21st century classic In Christ Alone. Read more Audio
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Good Friday Hymns, 7 April 2023
7:30 AM.A special selection of hymns to mark this important day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 April 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns for Palm Sunday today, celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and marking the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 March 2023
4:15 AM.Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20th century classic, The servant king.
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 March 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 March 2023
4:15 AM.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 18th… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 March 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 26 February 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 February 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns inspired by Psalm 150, Praise God in his sanctuary, feature in this week’s programme. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 February 2023
4:15 AM.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 100th birthday of the Lawton… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 February 2023
4:15 AM.Sing along this week to Shirley Murray's God bless our land, written especially to mark Waitangi Day. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 29 January 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 January 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 15 January 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 8 January 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns sung at weddings and memories of enthusiastic school singing are some of the inspirations behind our listener requests this week. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 1 January 2023
4:15 AM.Summer Requests programmes begin today, with listener choices including All creatures of our God and king and In Christ alone. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 December 2022
4:15 AM.Lots of well-known favourites in this Christmas Day edition of Hymns on Sunday. Sing along with choirs from New Zealand and around the world. Read more Audio