Hymns on Sunday

We're celebrating the First Sunday of Advent today with some favourite Advent hymns including O Come Emmanuel, and Of the Father's Heart Begotten. Read more Audio

It's Christ the King Sunday, and we're also marking feast days for Saints Clement and Cecilia, and hymn writer Isaac Watts. Read more Audio

In 2017, Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor. It's a Sunday set aside in the Catholic liturgical calendar to reflect on how poverty is at the very heart of the Gospel. This year's theme… Read more Audio

Hymns of reassurance, comfort and hope in this week's programme, including Christ is made the sure foundation, Shirley Murray's Hope is our song and the Boys' Brigade favourite Will your anchor hold.

Celebrating the Feast of All Saints this week, with hymns including For all the saints and Let saints on earth in concert sing. Read more Audio

Margaret Rizza’s Prayer for Peace features in this week’s programme: Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace, let peace fill our hearts, our world, our universe: peace, peace, peace. Read more Audio

It's World Mission Sunday. This special day in the Catholic liturgical calendar was created by Pope Pius XI in the mid-1920s as a day of prayer for missions. This year’s theme, chosen by the current… Read more Audio

In the days when bills came in envelopes through the letterbox, a young musician from Northern Ireland used the back of an electricity bill to write down some melody ideas. In this week’s programme… Read more Audio

Arthur Sullivan was the music half of the successful theatrical partnership, Gilbert and Sullivan. Alongside those catchy songs from Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, he also wrote hymn tunes. You… Read more Audio

Charles Wesley’s well-loved hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling has been set to many different tunes over the years. In this week’s programme, you can hear a setting by English composer Howard… Read more Video, Audio

It's 'hymns by her' this week - we're featuring hymns written or translated by women. Read more Audio

We're celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Maori this week and feature recordings by Haatea Kapa Haka from Himene Maori - a project to document, record, and publish Maori hymns and waiata. The project is led… Read more Audio