Hymns on Sunday

"Sing lustily and with a good courage", wrote Methodist leader John Wesley in his instructions to congregations on how to sing hymns. This week's selection for your best singing voice includes Praise… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. The programme includes Hugh Roberton's All in the April Evening, the Taize chant Sanctum Nomen Domini and an uplifting rendition of All Hail the Pow'r of… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. The programme includes some psalm-based hymns, an atmospheric setting of Amazing Grace, and Timothy Dudley-Smith's hymn, O Christ the same, which is paired… Read more Audio

A selection of tradition and modern hymns. It's Easter Sunday, so hymns with 'Alleluias' abound, including Jesus Christ is risen today, Jesus lives! and Low in the grave he lay. Audio

A selection of tradition and modern hymns. Today's programme marks Palm Sunday, and includes a hymn that's been sung as a Palm Sunday processional since the 10th century - All glory, laud and honour… Read more Audio

A selection of tradition and modern hymns. Some of the great Easter hymns in this week's programme, including O sacred head, My song is love unknown, and When I survey the wondrous cross. Audio

A selection of tradition and modern hymns. In today's programme we've communion hymns, and there's a bracket of children's hymns including the Easter-themed There is a green hill. We'll also hear… Read more Audio

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A selection of traditional and modern hymns. There's an impressively broad span of hymns in today's programme, ranging from the 10th century (The Lent Prose) right up to the 21st (Shirley Murray's… Read more Audio

A selection of traditional and modern hymns. This week we finish off our Summer Listener Requests series, and mark the beginning of Lent with George Smyttan's hymn Forty Days and Forty Nights and the… Read more Audio

This week's selection of listener requests includes Charles Wesley's hymns And can it be, and Jesu, lover of my soul. There's a rousing arrangement of Onward, Christian soldiers for brass band, and we… Read more Audio

This week's selection of listener hymn requests includes Dorothy Buchanan's setting of Psalm 23, Hushed was the Evening Hymn by James Burns, and a rousing rendition of Jerusalem from the Choir of… Read more Audio