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Hymns on Sunday, 26 November 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 19 November 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 12 November 2023
4:15 AM.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.
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Hymns on Sunday, 5 November 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 29 October 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 22 October 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 15 October 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 8 October 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 1 October 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 24 September 2023
4:15 AM.It's 'hymns by her' this week - we're featuring hymns written or translated by women. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 17 September 2023
4:15 AM.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
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Hymns on Sunday, 10 September 2023
4:15 AM.It’s thanks to the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust for the recording of our opening hymn this week, Shirley Murray’s God bless our land. The Trust was set up to encourage the writing, publication and… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 3 September 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns to mark the start of the Season of Creation include For the beauty of the earth and Shirley Murray’s Touch the earth lightly. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 27 August 2023
4:15 AM.Hubert Parry's familiar tune 'Jerusalem' begins this week's programme, paired with words by choir director and artist, Arthur Grimshaw: Sing to the Lord a new song. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 20 August 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns by 'Tims’ feature in this week’s programme: English hymn writer Timothy Dudley-Smith and Timothy Rees, who was Bishop of Llandaff in the 1930s. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 13 August 2023
4:15 AM.We're marking the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, Mother of God in this week's programme with hymns including Immaculate Mary and Ka Waiata. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 6 August 2023
4:15 AM.Hymns to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration today, including Christ whose glory fills the skies and Be still, for the presence of the Lord. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 30 July 2023
4:15 AM.It's all about descants today - those soaring vocal lines above the melody that are often sung on the final verse of hymns. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 23 July 2023
4:15 AM.We're celebrating the birthday of Isaac Watts (17 July 1674) this week. He's often described as 'the father of English hymnody'. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 16 July 2023
4:15 AM.The season of Matariki has begun. It’s a time to gather with family and friends to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and plan for the future. This week’s programme touches on some of those… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 9 July 2023
4:15 AM.We're marking 'Sea Sunday' in the programme this week. The second Sunday in July is designated in the liturgical calendar as a day of prayer for seafarers - it's a time to remember and celebrate those… Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 2 July 2023
4:15 AM.There's a focus this week on the Elements - hymns that reference Earth, Wind, Water or Fire. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 25 June 2023
4:15 AM.The Auckland-based Handel Quire gets this week’s programme off to a great start with Isaac Watts’ hymn Lord of the worlds above. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 18 June 2023
4:15 AM.Brass bands and hymns – it’s a combination that’s hard to beat! In this week’s programme you can hear an arrangement of Abide with me, played by Woolston Brass. Read more Audio
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Hymns on Sunday, 11 June 2023
4:15 AM.We’re marking the Feast of Corpus Christi with hymns including Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and I am the Bread of Life written in the 1960s by American nun Sister Suzanne Toolan. Read more Audio