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4:15 AM.A morning hymn, an evening hymn and a hymn from the Scottish Psalter – just some of the listener requests in this week’s Hymns on Sunday. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Another great selection of listener requests today, including a benediction by John Rutter and a calypso setting of the Lord’s Prayer. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’re continuing our Summer Requests programmes in Hymns on Sunday, and this week you can hear wedding hymns, a 20^th century classic and a rousing rendition of For all the saints. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Our Summer Requests programmes begin today, with listener choices including To be a pilgrim and John Rutter's setting of For the beauty of the earth. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s nearly Christmas Day, and if you feel you haven’t had a good carol singalong yet, today’s programme is just for you. Plenty of well-known carols, including a couple that will really stretch your… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.A paraphrase of the Magnificat, or Song of Mary, begins this week’s programme. And find out how organist Lewis Redner came to compose the tune for the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns for the second Sunday in Advent include Shirley Murray’s Look towards Christmas, and People look East. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Plenty of Advent hymns today to mark the first Sunday in this season of the liturgical year. It’s a time of waiting and expectation leading up to Christmas. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns to celebrate Christ the King Sunday in this week’s programme, as well as St Clement’s Day and the hymn writer Isaac Watts. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s World Day of the Poor today. This is a relatively recent initiative, begun by Pope Francis in 2017. You can hear some hymns with a social justice theme in the programme, to mark the day. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.A favourite setting of The Lord’s My Shepherd (Psalm 23) in this week’s programme. It’s known as ‘Brother James’ Air’, named after the tune’s composer James Leith McBain. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s Reformation Day today (31 October): it was on this day in 1517 that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. We’ll hear Luther’s great hymn A… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Some light-themed hymns in this week's programme, including John Henry Newman's Lead, kindly light and the South African hymn Siyahamba (We are walking in the light of God). Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Lawyer, politician, church minister, teacher, opera singer: just some of the many and varied occupations of the hymn writers in this week's episode of Hymns on Sunday. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns in this week’s programme include a Jewish-Methodist collaboration, one of the Queen’s favourites and setting of Psalm 96: O sing unto the Lord a new song. Read more Audio

4:00 AM.We're celebrating the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi (4 October) in Hymns on Sunday, which marks the end of the Season of Creation in the church calendar. Read more Audio

4:00 AM.Voices of women in Hymns on Sunday today, with hymns from across the centuries written or translated by the likes of Shirley Murray, Marnie Barrell, Cecil Frances Alexander and Catherine Winkworth. Read more Audio

4:00 AM.It’s the final day of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week – and we’ve a great selection of te reo hymns including Wairua Tapu by Ngapo Wehi and a setting of Whakaaria mai by Ryan Youens. Read more Audio

4:00 AM.We’re looking upward in this week’s home edition of the programme with two settings of Psalm 121: ‘I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills’. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.The Season of Creation is an annual, worldwide, ecumenical celebration of prayer and action for the environment which takes place from 1 September through to 4 October. In this week's home edition of… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.There's a beautiful setting of the Prayer of St Francis in this week's home edition of Hymns on Sunday: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Read more Video, Audio

4:20 AM.Tune in this week for a selection of hymns of reassurance, comfort and hope. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Marian hymns feature in Hymns on Sunday this week, marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary on 15 August. It's a particularly significant time for New Zealand Catholics as they rededicate Aotearoa… Read more Video, Audio

4:20 AM.Hymns to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration (6th August) this week, and a selection of morning hymns including Morning has broken, and When morning gilds the skies. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Well-known favourites this week include Henry Baker's paraphrase of Psalm 23 (The king of love my shepherd is) and Dear Lord and father of mankind by John Greenleaf Whittier. You can also hear a hymn… Read more Audio