Hymns on Sunday

Hymns to celebrating Easter Sunday include two New Zealand hymns, a hymn from the 8^th century and the 21^st century classic In Christ Alone. Read more Audio

A special selection of hymns to mark this important day in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio

Hymns for Palm Sunday today, celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and marking the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Read more Audio

Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20^th century classic, The servant king.

This week we’ve communion hymns, a psalm from the Scottish Psalter, and some hymns from writers who are proof that age is no barrier to trying something new. Read more Audio

There’s a ‘wealth of Williams’ in this week’s programme – hymn writers, arrangers and hymn tune composers. Including William Williams, one of the leaders of the Methodist revival in Wales in the 18^th… Read more Audio

In this week’s programme we’ve hymns for the second Sunday in Lent, and we’re marking some recent dates in the liturgical calendar: World Day of Prayer on 3 March and St David’s Day on 1 March. Read more Audio

Hymns to mark the first Sunday in Lent, and a hymn by Shirley Murray that turned out to be much more successful than she expected. Read more Audio

Hymns inspired by Psalm 150, Praise God in his sanctuary, feature in this week’s programme. Read more Audio

In our final programme of Summer Hymn Requests you can hear the Seafarers’ Hymn (Eternal Father), Stuart Townend’s O, my soul, arise and a setting of Psalm 150 to mark the 100^th birthday of the Lawton… Read more Audio

Sing along this week to Shirley Murray's God bless our land, written especially to mark Waitangi Day. Read more Audio

Back in the 1920s, Rev William Fullerton from Belfast set a hymn he’d written to a traditional Irish tune: Londonderry Air. You can hear the result in this week’s programme. Read more Audio