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4:15 AM.What’s the link between the 19^th century hymn The church’s one foundation and composer Karl Jenkins’ 21^st century work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace? Find out in this week’s programme of listener… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It's a gentle start to this week's Summer Hymn Requests, with Eleanor Farjeon's Morning Has Broken sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Welcome to the first of our Summer Hymn Requests programmes, which begins with Carl Boberg's well-loved hymn How great thou art. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Carols for the Fourth Sunday in Advent include Poverty Carol, It came upon a midnight clear, and New Zealand hymn writer Shirley Murray’s Star-child, earth-child. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Rejoice! It's Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete is 'rejoice' in Latin). Hymns include Tell out my soul, and New Zealand carols From Pastures Green and Pohutukawa Carol. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent include Shirley Murray's Look toward Christmas! and Hail to the Lord's anointed. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.The season of Advent begins today – a time of waiting and expectation leading up to Christmas. Sing along to favourite Advent hymns including O come, Emmanuel and Come, thou long-expected Jesus. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Christ the King Sunday is a 20th century addition to the church calendar, introduced by Pope Pius XI in the 1920s. We're marking it today with hymns including Rejoice! the Lord is King and Lord,… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Marking World Day of the Poor in Hymns on Sunday this week. Pope Francis established this day in the Catholic liturgical calendar in 2017 - a Sunday set aside to reflect on how poverty is at the very… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We're featuring evening hymns this week, there's a setting of Psalm 23 (probably the most frequently set of all the psalm), and a hymn that nearly ended up in little pieces in the rubbish bin. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Marking the Feast of All Saints today with William Walsham How's great hymn For All the Saints. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns by Charles Wesley feature in this week's programme. Nicknamed 'the Bard of Methodism', he wrote thousands of hymns throughout his life. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Marking World Mission Sunday this week with hymns including We have a gospel to proclaim, and Who’ll be a witness for my Lord. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.An atmospheric recording of Psalm 23 this week, along with some hymns given 'the Vaughan Williams touch'. The English composer (born on 12 October 1872 in the village of Down Ampney) was music editor… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Marking the end of the Season of Creation in this week's programme, along with the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi (patron saint of ecology). Read more Audio

4:15 AM.“Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee”, writes Reginald Heber in his well-loved hymn, Holy, holy, holy. Sing along in this week’s programme. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.New Zealand hymn writer Shirley Erena Murray’s life and work is celebrated in a new biography by Anne Manchester: Peace is Her Song. You can hear hymns by Shirley Murray in this week’s programme. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori this week with a selection of hymns from Hīmene Māori - a project to document, record, and publish Māori hymns and waiata. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s hymns ancient and modern this week. We’ve a setting of Hail, gladdening light (a hymn from the 3rd or 4th century), and In You we live – a 21^st century hymn written by Sue Mepham from Flagstaff… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrating the beginning of the Season of Creation today with hymns including How great thou art, For the beauty of the earth, and Shirley Murray’s Touch the earth lightly. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns from across the centuries this week, from Bernard of Clairvaux's 12th century poetry to NZ hymn writer Jocelyn Marshall's God of Ages written for a Millennium hymn competition. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Church musician William Shrubsole is best known for the hymn tune ‘Miles Lane’. He was a “one tune man”, wrote composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, but what a “superb” tune it was. You can hear it set to… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It's a 21^st century classic to begin this week’s programme: In Christ Alone, written by Stuart Townend and Keith Getty in 2001. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It's straight in with the big tunes today - Arthur Grimshaw's hymn Sing to the Lord a joyful song, to the tune 'Jerusalem' by Hubert Parry. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.You can hear hymns based on the psalms in this week’s programme, including All people that on earth do dwell (Psalm 100), O God, our help in ages past (Psalm 90), and I to the hills will lift mine… Read more Audio