Hymns on Sunday

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

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

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

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

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

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

We're marking Remembrance Sunday today, with hymns including O God, our help in ages past and The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended. And it's an important day for the Timaru Catholic community with the… Read more Audio

We're marking All Saints' Day this week (1 November) with a massed choir performance of William How's great hymn For all the saints. And Reformation Day (31 October) isn't forgotten: listen out for… Read more Audio

In Hymns on Sunday this week, you can hear 'one of the most perfect tunes in existence'. That's how composer Hubert Parry described the traditional Irish tune Londonderry Air, paired here with Timothy… Read more Audio

We check out some of the UK's favourite hymns today. The BBC's Songs of Praise programme ran a survey last year - perhaps some will be your favourites, too. Read more Audio

Spirituals, psalms and some hymns with a royal connection in this week's programme. And the details for our Summer Hymn Request programmes in January, where you get to choose the hymns. Read more Audio

It's the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi today. Words from his poem Canticle of the Sun inspired a translation by English vicar William Draper which became the hymn All creatures of our God and king… Read more Audio