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4:20 AM.In Hymns on Sunday this week, you can hear 'one of the most perfect tunes in existence'. That's how composer Hubert Parry described the traditional Irish tune Londonderry Air, paired here with Timothy… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.We check out some of the UK's favourite hymns today. The BBC's Songs of Praise programme ran a survey last year - perhaps some will be your favourites, too. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Spirituals, psalms and some hymns with a royal connection in this week's programme. And the details for our Summer Hymn Request programmes in January, where you get to choose the hymns. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi today. Words from his poem Canticle of the Sun inspired a translation by English vicar William Draper which became the hymn All creatures of our God and king… Read more Audio

3:30 AM.There's a focus on women hymn writer and translators in this week's programme, with hymns from Victorian-era writers Frances Ridley Havergal and Cecil Frances Alexander to some by our New Zealand hymn… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.This week's selection includes hymns to mark Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Maori Language Week). Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.There's a focus on the pipe organ this week - described by Mozart as 'the king of instruments'. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.New Zealand singer Chris Bruerton is a member of the highly acclaimed British vocal ensemble, The King's Singers. In this week's programme, you can hear how he sounded back in his chorister days at… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.Pilgrim hymns feature this week, including He who would valiant be (with words from John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress), and Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.This week in Hymns on Sunday, find out the story behind Folliott Pierpoint's hymn For the beauty of the earth. And we've some hymns that use tunes from two of the great classical composers - Joseph… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.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. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration this week, including Immortal, invisible and Christ, whose glory fills the skies. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns with a social justice theme, a spiritual from the New Zealand Youth Choir, and some settings of Psalm 104 - all in Hymns on Sunday this week. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns on peace, some Maori hymns and a beautiful benediction in this week's programme. Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.We're focussing on hymns inspired by the Psalms in this week. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Keep your vocal cords in shape with this week's selection of hymns, including Immortal, Invisible and What a friend we have in Jesus. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns with the theme of 'mercy' feature in Hymns on Sunday this week, and there's a 20th century classic which became famous during the Billy Graham Crusades of the 1940s. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Something for the shortest day in Hymns on Sunday this week - In the bleak midwinter. It's one of those snow-filled Northern hemisphere carols that sound best sung on a wintry day... Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns of thankfulness today, including New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod's Thank you for the night and a particularly joyful recording of Now thank we all our God by the Huddersfield Choral Society. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.It's Trinity Sunday, and this week's selection has hymns to mark the occasion including Reginald Heber's great Trinitarian hymn Holy, holy, holy. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns spanning 11 centuries in this week's programme to mark Pentecost Sunday. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.Hymns to mark Ascension Sunday in today's edition, including Hail the day that sees him rise by Charles Wesley, and New Zealand hymn writer Marnie Barrell's Christ ascends to God. Read more Audio

2:30 AM.In this week's Hymns on Sunday Home Edition, we bring the magnificent acoustic of St Paul's Cathedral, London, right into your living room with a performance of Psalm 23 by the choir. And you can sing… Read more Audio

2:30 AM.There's a reflective feel to this week's episode, with hymns by Bernadette Farrell (God Beyond All Names, and O God, You Search Me), and a beautiful setting of Be Still, My Soul by New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

2:30 AM.Two millennium-related hymns in today's programme: New Zealander Jocelyn Marshall's God of Ages was one of the 16 top hymns selected in a British Millennium Hymn Competition back in 2000. And Howard… Read more Audio