Hymns on Sunday Podcast Options

4:15 AM.Lancelot Andrewes was a 16^th century English bishop and one of a group of Church of England scholars appointed to compile the King James version of the Bible. You can hear John Rutter’s beautiful… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s favourites – you can hear a beautifully stately rendition by the Huddersfield Choral Society in this week’s… 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 3^rd or 4^th century), and In You we live written in 2010 by Sue Mepham from Flagstaff Community… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.The Season of Creation has begun (1 September to 4 October in the church calendar) and this week’s programme includes some creation-themed favourites. Sing along to How great thou art, All things… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We're straight in with the big tunes this week. Sing along to Hubert Parry's well-loved melody, Jerusalem, paired with words by Arthur Grimshaw: Sing to the Lord a joyful song. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.One hymn, two writers, 12 verses... that’s the hymn Crown Him with many crowns. We’ll hear three of those verses in today’s programme. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’re marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary with hymns including Immaculate Mary and Mō Maria. It’s an especially important time for New Zealand Catholics as St Mary of the Angels Church in… Read more Video, Audio

4:15 AM.Sing along this week to hymns marking the Feast of the Transfiguration (6 August). Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Henry Lyte’s hymn Praise, my soul, the king of heaven is one of the most popular hymns in English-speaking Christian denominations. In today’s programme we take a look at John Goss, who composed its… Read more Audio

4:15 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

4:15 AM.Plenty of variety in this week’s selection of hymns, which include a Taizé chant, a hymn from the Iona community in Scotland, and Charles Wesley’s great hymn And Can It Be. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’re marking Sea Sunday – also described as a ‘Day of Prayer for Seafarers’.  It’s a time to remember and celebrate those whose workplace is the sea, with hymns including… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.It’s the middle of winter, and we’re celebrating the cold and dark in this week’s programme with some carols of the snowy variety: it’s the perfect time of year to sing In the Bleak Midwinter! Read more Audio

4:15 AM.The season of Matariki has begun. It’s a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future. We touch on some of those Matariki themes in… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.When Sister Suzanne Toolan wrote I am the Bread of Life in the 1960s she almost threw the song away, thinking it wasn’t very good. Since then, it’s been sung all over the world in many denominations… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrate Trinity Sunday in this episode, with Trinitarian hymns including Reginald Heber's Holy, holy, holy and Firmly I believe, and truly by Cardinal John Henry Newman. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns to mark Pentecost Sunday this week and, on this Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Birthday Weekend, we’ll hear some of the Queen’s favourite hymns along with a hymn sung at her coronation in 1953. Read more Video, Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension in this episode, including Charles Wesley’s Hail the day that sees him rise, and Christ ascends to God by New Zealander Marnie Barrell. And we mark the… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Today’s programme begins with a hymn that’s been covered by the likes of Neil Diamond, Judy Collins, Kenny Rogers, and maybe most famously by Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) in the 1970s: Morning has broken… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns with a thankfulness theme in this week's programme, as well as some harvest hymns to reflect those cooler days and autumn colours that are all around us at the moment. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrating Mother's Day this week with some hymns of praise to Mary, and Shirley Murray’s Loving Spirit. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Beekeeper, comic opera composer and professor of anatomy: just some of the interesting occupations of the people involved in this week’s selection of hymns. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.In today’s programme we mark Anzac Day on 25 April with hymns including O God, our help in ages past and Shirley Murray’s New Zealand Anzac hymn, Honour the dead. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Celebrate Easter Sunday with hymns including Jesus Christ is risen today, The day of resurrection and Shirley Murray’s Christ is alive. Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Hymns to mark this important date in the Christian calendar, commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus. Read more Audio