Hymns on Sunday

Today's selection of traditional and modern hymns includes Reginald Heber's great Trinitarian hymn Holy, holy, holy as well as hymns by 19th century newspaper editor and poet James Montgomery. Read more Audio

Celebrate the official start of Spring with hymns on Nature, including Shirley Murray's The Spring has come and For the beauty of the earth by Folliott Pierpoint. Read more Audio

Hymns of hope and hymns on prayer feature in today's programme, including Anonymous 4's a capella version of the gospel hymn Sweet hour of prayer. Read more Audio

Sing along this week to hymns with tunes that once accompanied folk songs. And we mark two church calendar dates - Bernard of Clairvaux's feast day on 20 August, and the Marian feast day Queenship of… Read more Audio

Hymns of thankfulness feature in today's programme, along with several settings of the Psalms. Read more Audio

It's Transfiguration Sunday this week, commemorating the New Testament event when Jesus is transfigured: "His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light" [Matt 17:2].
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This week's selection of traditional and modern hymns begins with two settings of Psalm 104, there are hymns with a Welsh connection, and you can hear a beautiful rendition of the spiritual There is a… Read more Audio

Some hymns about creation in this week's programme, including Fairest Lord Jesus and The Spacious Firmament On High. Read more Video, Audio

Two millennium-related hymns in today's programme: New Zealand hymn writer Jocelyn Marshall's hymn God of Ages was one of the 16 top hymns selected in a British Millenium Hymn Competition back in… Read more Audio

The version of Crown Him with many crowns you'll find in hymnbooks is most probably the work of not one but two writers - Matthew Bridges and Godfrey Thring. Sing along to three of the possible twelve… Read more Audio

Hear Anonymous 4's beautiful a capella rendition of the gospel hymn Sweet hour of prayer, as well as 20th century hymns O Christ the same by Timothy Dudley-Smith, and Shirley Murray's Look in wonder.

Sing along to John Newton's famous hymn Amazing Grace in today's programme, as well as favourites He who would valiant be, and Praise to the Lord, the Almighty. Read more Audio