Hymns on Sunday

Written in the 1970s by Australian Catholic nun Sister Deirdre Browne, Come as you are is now sung throughout the world. Sister Deirdre says that the song’s appeal is simply its singability and its… Read more Video, Audio

This week’s programme includes hymns that are based on or reference Psalm 150. “Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary, praise him in his mighty heavens.” Read more Audio

Two very different settings of verses from Romans Chapter 8 this week: “Nothing can separate us from the love of God”. And we’re completing our Summer Hymn Requests with hymns including Abide with me… Read more Audio

This week’s listener requests include a Brendan Taaffe’s contemporary folk hymn To the hills, a harvest anthem by English composer John Rutter, and Isaac Watt’s well-loved hymn When I survey the… Read more Audio

Charles Wesley’s hymn Love divine, all loves excelling is the choice of not one but three listeners in this week’s programme of Summer Hymn Requests. You can also hear Honour the dead, Shirley… Read more Audio

This week’s listener requests include a contemporary setting of Psalm 23, a chorus from John Stainer’s oratorio The Crucifixion, and a 21^st century hymn by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. Read more Audio

What’s the link between the 19^th century hymn The church’s one foundation and composer Karl Jenkins’ 21^st century work The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace? Find out in this week’s programme of listener… Read more Audio

It's a gentle start to this week's Summer Hymn Requests, with Eleanor Farjeon's Morning Has Broken sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Read more Audio

Welcome to the first of our Summer Hymn Requests programmes, which begins with Carl Boberg's well-loved hymn How great thou art. Read more Audio

Carols for the Fourth Sunday in Advent include Poverty Carol, It came upon a midnight clear, and New Zealand hymn writer Shirley Murray’s Star-child, earth-child. Read more Audio

Rejoice! It's Gaudete Sunday, the Third Sunday in Advent (Gaudete is 'rejoice' in Latin). Hymns include Tell out my soul, and New Zealand carols From Pastures Green and Pohutukawa Carol. Read more Audio

Hymns for the Second Sunday of Advent include Shirley Murray's Look toward Christmas! and Hail to the Lord's anointed. Read more Audio