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4:15 AM.This week’s programme includes some communion hymns, there’s a favourite hymn by Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier – Dear Lord and father of mankind – and we continue our series of Psalm 23 settings with… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.There's an Irish flavour to this week's hymns, marking St Patrick's Day on 17 March. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’re continuing our series of Psalm 23 (The Lord’s My Shepherd) settings with My shepherd will supply my need. It was written in the early 18^th century by Isaac Watts, who was an important figure in… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’ve hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent this week, there are some peace-themed hymns, and you can hear another setting of Psalm 23 The Lord’s My Shepherd. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’re marking Transfiguration Sunday this week with hymns including Immortal, invisible and Christ, whose glory fills the sky. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.In this week’s programme we’re featuring evening hymns, and you can hear a setting of Psalm 23 – it’ll be the third in our series so far. We’re also commemorating the Feast Day of German theologian… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.In this week’s programme, you can hear two settings of Psalm 121: ‘I will lift mine eyes unto the hills’. One’s from the 18^th century and the other was written especially for the Queen’s Silver… Read more Audio

4:15 AM.We’re marking Waitangi Day with a selection of hymns featuring New Zealand hymn writers and New Zealand choirs. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Hymns spanning nine centuries in this week's Summer Requests programme, from Jerusalem the golden with words by 12th century monk Bernard of Cluny to a 1970s folk-style setting of the Lord's Prayer. Read more Audio

4:15 AM.Plenty of well-loved favourites in this week’s programme of listener requests, including The old rugged cross, What a friend we have in Jesus, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Read more Audio

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