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Hymns on Sunday, 7 March 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 28 February 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 21 February 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 14 February 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 7 February 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 31 January 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 24 January 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 January 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 January 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 January 2021
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 27 December 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 December 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 13 December 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 6 December 2020
4:20 AM.Our Advent hymns today, marking the Second Sunday in Advent, include Shirley Murray's Look towards Christmas. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 29 November 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 November 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 15 November 2020
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
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Hymns on Sunday, 8 November 2020
4:20 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 1 November 2020
4:20 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 October 2020
4:20 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 October 2020
4:20 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 October 2020
4:20 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 4 October 2020
2:30 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 27 September 2020
3:30 AM.There's a focus on women hymn writer and translators in this week's programme, with hymns from Victorian-era writers Frances Ridley Havergal and Cecil Frances Alexander to some by our New Zealand hymn… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 September 2020
2:30 AM.This week's selection includes hymns to mark Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Maori Language Week). Read more Video, Audio
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