Hymns on Sunday

We're marking the beginning of Lent, there's a chant from the Taizé tradition and we get an insight into how American minister Robert Lowry wrote his hymns. Read more Audio

Hymns with a Nature theme feature today, as well as a couple of hymns by 18th century newspaper editor and poet James Montgomery. Find out why he ended up in prison - twice. Read more Audio

Evening hymns make a rare (but welcome) appearance this week, including John Ellerton's The Day Thou Gavest, Lord Is Ended. Read more Audio

Hymns from the 10th to 21st centuries in today's programme, including Stuart Townend's To you we bring our hymn of praise written in collaboration with Matt Maher and Kelly Minter in 2007. Read more Audio

Hymns by the 'father of English hymnody' Isaac Watts, New Zealand hymn writer Jocelyn Marshall and composer of contemplative chants, Margaret Rizza feature in this episode. And find out which hymn… Read more Audio

It's a celebration of psalms in this episode, with settings of Psalm 48, Psalm 96 and Psalm 121. We're also marking Waitangi Day with a hymn by Shirley Murray: God bless our land. Read more Audio

In this programme of listener requests you can hear a beautifully atmospheric setting of Psalm 23 by Charles Hylton Stewart, and a hymn written by a Bishop of Calcutta. And there's a request dedicated… Read more Audio

Our listener requests continue this week, and include the always-popular Brother James' Air, and William How's For all the saints. Read more Audio

A Taizé chant, the Seafarers' Hymn (Eternal Father), and a psalm from the Scottish Psalter are among today's listener requests. And there's a rousing rendition of Timothy Dudley-Smith's hymn When the… Read more Audio

Good news from The Graduate Choir, a carol for Epiphany by Peter Cornelius, and an atmospheric setting of Joseph Parry's tune 'Aberystwyth' - some of the treats in store in today's Summer Hymn… Read more Audio

Summer Hymns Requests begins today. Our first programme of listener favourites includes Hail, Queen of Heaven (to mark the Feast of the Solemnity of Mary on 1 January), Glorious things of thee are… Read more Audio

Some great carols to sing along to today - guaranteed to give your lungs a good workout! Join us for Ding Dong! Merrily on high, O Holy Night, It came upon a midnight clear and more. Read more Audio