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January 1, 2012

Season 52 - 2012

01. New Year's Day Big Sing

Alexandra Burke and Katie Melua are the guest soloists in a Songs of Praise spectacular from the Royal Albert Hall as Aled Jones introduces sing-a-long hymns, old and new, sung by five thousand singers.

40min
January 1, 2012

05. 21st Century Hymn Writers

Aled Jones introduces a feast of traditional hymns by some of today's hymn writers, and discovers what makes a modern classic. Hymns include Christ Triumphant and Tell Out, My Soul.

35min
January 29, 2012

06. Rick Wakeman

Keyboard legend and Grumpy Old Man Rick Wakeman performs some of his favourite hymns and his famous arrangement of Morning Has Broken, and tells Aled Jones how his faith has survived the ups and downs of a rock and roll life.

35min
February 5, 2012

07. Ten Years of School Choirs

David Grant introduces a decade of highlights from the annual School Choir of the Year competition, and discovers why one winning choir will now be starring in a blockbuster movie.

35min
February 12, 2012

18. School Choirs 2012 Final

Russell Watson, Suzi Digby and David Grant choose the very best junior and senior school choirs in this tenth Songs of Praise school choir competition, introduced by Aled Jones from The Lowry Theatre, Salford.

45min
April 29, 2012

24. Coventry Cathedral

Pam Rhodes celebrates fifty years of the architectural icon that is Coventry Cathedral, and asks how a building conceived in the darkest days of the Second World War has become internationally renowned for peace and reconciliation

35min
June 10, 2012

27. Dunblane

Sally Magnusson introduces hymns and songs from the 13th-century cathedral, including Morrison's Academy Girls Choir and the Origin singers.

35min
July 1, 2012