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4:20 AM.In this week's programme you can hear some of the hymns that were sung at the very first Anzac memorial services held around New Zealand on April 25th back in 1916. Read more Video, Audio

4:20 AM.There's a focus on hymn tunes this week in Hymns on Sunday, including one by Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame), a couple of repurposed folk tunes, and a setting of Walter Smith's Immortal,… Read more Audio

10:22 AM.In today's programme you can hear 'one of the most perfect tunes in existence', according to English composer Hubert Parry, as well as hymns by the very fine NZ hymn-writing partnership of Shirley… Read more Video, Audio

4:20 AM.Some of the great resurrection hymns in today's programme for Easter Day. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.A special edition of our Hymns programme to mark Good Friday. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Plenty of celebratory hymns in this week's Palm Sunday edition of Hymns on Sunday, including one that's been in use as a Palm Sunday processional hymn since the 10th century. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.It's the fifth Sunday in Lent, and in today's programme you can hear one of the great hymns for Lent and Holy Week: Samuel Crossman's My song is love unknown. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Coming up in Hymns on Sunday, some communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and we hear hymns from two writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Hymns by Charles Wesley feature in Hymns on Sunday this week. He and his brother John were the founders of Methodism, and although they both wrote hymns it was Charles who ended up with the nickname… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Hymns on Sunday this week features hymns for Lent and two very different settings of Psalm 130: "Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord". Read more Audio

4:20 AM.This week's selection includes hymns to mark the First Sunday in Lent; German theologian Martin Luther's Feast Day; and there are hymns with a Christchurch connection to mark the 10th anniversary of… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Hymns from across the centuries in today's programme, ranging from a hymn written by Joachim Neander in the 1600s right up to Keith Getty and Stuart Townend's In Christ Alone from 2001. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.In Hymns on Sunday, we mark Waitangi Day with Shirley Murray's hymn God bless our land. And we wrap up our Summer Hymn Requests for the year: this week's listener favourites include a setting of Psalm… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.More listener favourites this week, including a hymn by New Zealander Nigel Eastgate. Alongside a busy career as a GP in South Dunedin for nearly 38 years, he was also a composer. He wrote a number of… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Hear hymns sung in some great acoustics, including St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in London, Washington National Cathedral, and the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul right here in New… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Does the name Howard Goodall sound familiar? He's an award-winning composer of choral music, stage musicals, film and TV scores - among them Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, and Mr Bean. He's also… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.In today's programme of listener requests, we've a hymn written by two friends; there's one of Martin Luther King's favourite hymns; and the American Spiritual Ensemble sings Siyahamba. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.In this week's Hymns on Sunday Summer Requests programme we've some familiar favourites, including Charles Wesley's And Can It Be, and The Lord's My Shepherd set to Jessie Seymour Irvine's tune… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.It's the first of our Hymns on Sunday Summer Requests programmes today - you can hear Shirley Murray's Sing a carol for summer, a hymn by Colin Gibson, and Handel Parker's Deep Harmony arranged for… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Time to put your best voice forward this week in Hymns on Sunday! If you're feeling as though you haven't had the chance to have a good Christmas singalong yet, we've plenty of well-known carols for… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Some New Zealand carols feature in this week's Hymns on Sunday, including Shirley Murray's Child of Christmas Story and the Pohutukawa Carol which was written by Father Ted Forsman while he was an… Read more Audio

4:20 AM.Our Advent hymns today, marking the Second Sunday in Advent, include Shirley Murray's Look towards Christmas. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.We're marking the First Sunday in Advent with some great seasonal hymns, including O come, Emmanuel and Come, thou long-expected Jesus. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.This week in Hymns on Sunday we've hymns to celebrate Christ the King Sunday, St Clement's Day and the hymn writer Isaac Watts. Read more Audio

4:20 AM.What hymns did you choose for your wedding? This week in Hymns on Sunday you can hear some of Queen Elizabeth II's choices - her 73rd wedding anniversary is coming up on 20 November. Read more Audio