Hymns on Sunday Podcast Options

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

4:15 AM.19th-century lawyer and politician Robert Grant only wrote a few hymns, but there's one you'll still find in many hymnbooks today: O worship the king. Sing along in this week's programme. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It's Sea Sunday today, remembering and celebrating those whose workplace is the sea with hymns including Eternal Father (the 'Navy Hymn') and Will your anchor hold. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.You might think the life of a 19^th century hymn translator was pretty uneventful. Not so for John Mason Neale, who translated our first hymn in this week’s programme, Christ is made the sure… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrating the season of Matariki this week, with hymns in te reo Māori and hymns of remembrance. And we mark the Feast of St Paul. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Two hymns inspired by Psalm 23 ‘The Lord’s My Shepherd’ in this week’s programme. Both from the 1800s, one is by a British professor of music, John Goss, the other is by Joseph Gilmore, an American… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Methodist leader John Wesley had some good tips for singing hymns, including this one: "Sing lustily and with good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.The New Zealand Youth Choir features in this week’s programme, singing Wairua tapu (a hymn to the Holy Spirit by Ngapo Wehi) and the African-American spiritual Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Psalm 23 The Lord's My Shepherd has been set to many different tunes. John Campbell, a 19th century Scottish merchant and amateur musician, wrote the very cheerful setting you can hear in today's… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrating Trinity Sunday this week with a selection of hymns including Holy, Holy, Holy and Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead Us. And we mark the start of Samoan Language Week with a hymn of praise and… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns for the Feast of Pentecost today, including contemporary hymns by NZ hymn writer Bill Wallace (Wild wind of the Holy Spirit) and the UK's Bernadette Farrell (Spirit of God, rest on your people).

4:15 AM.Hymns with the theme of mercy feature in this week's programme, and there are some hymns to Mary to mark Mother's Day. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns from the 12th century to the 20th this week, including Jesu, the very thought of thee (based on a poem by Bernard of Clairvaux) and NZ hymn writer Colin Gibson’s He came singing love. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.A great rendition of William Kethe's hymn All people that on earth do dwell begins this week's programme. You can also hear harvest hymns, and hymns of thanksgiving. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Looking ahead to ANZAC Day this week, with hymns including Abide with me and Shirley Murray’s Honour the dead. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.More Eastertide hymns today, including He is risen. The words, written by Cecil Frances Alexander in the 1840s, have been set to a tune by Dunedin composer and choral director Richard Madden. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.George Woodward's hymn This joyful Eastertide begins today's programme. George was a man of many talents: as well as writing hymns, he was a bell ringer, he played the cello and euphonium, and he was… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrate Easter Sunday with favourite Easter hymns, including Jesus Christ is risen today, Thine be the glory, and the New Zealand Easter hymn Christ is alive! Read more Audio

7:30 AM.A selection of hymns for Good Friday. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Holy Week begins today - the sixth and final week of Lent. Palm Sunday commemorates the entry of Jesus in Jerusalem, and our hymns include Ride on, ride on in majesty and All glory, laud and honour. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.19th-century English architect James Edmeston wrote around 2000 hymns - it was said that he produced one every Sunday. We'll hear one of his best-known hymns this week: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s the Fourth Sunday in Lent, known as Laetare (‘rejoice’ in Latin) Sunday. Hymns include Praise, my soul, the king of heaven and the psalm paraphrase Praise God, for he is kind. And we remember New… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.This week, we’ve hymns that focus on peace, unity and consolation, including Make me a channel of your peace (The Prayer of St Francis), and Margaret Rizza’s In the Lord is my joy and salvation. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.This week, we've a hymn by Dunedin GP Nigel Eastgate; two different settings of Psalm 130 - Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; and a hymn from Hatea Kapa Haka: E kino koe te ingoa nei. Read more Audio