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Check in at midday to find out about the best-selling albums around the world this week.

Lynn Freeman reflects on the highlights of the Venice Biennale and on a city under assault from hordes of tourists and the water that surrounds it.

Mozart's perfectly composed Piano Concerto No 21 is played by German pianist Lars Vogt with the NZSO.

By teaching a machine to sing with an ensemble of voices, Holly Herndon has created an otherworldly album that presents a utopian vision of how technology can co-exist with humanity, writes Francis Cook.

Uniting musicians from seafaring cultures across the Pacific & Indian Oceans. All the songs for this award-winning album were recorded in nature using traditional instruments and languages. The result is epic and beautiful. Video, Audio

Headphones on! Listen to all these concertos by New Zealand composers!

Here's a gentle moment for the little ones - Joy Cowley and Andrew Burdan's Kiwi Lullaby in Te Reo Māori.

Listen to the eerily dark and unnerving soundscapes of Doprah performing a packed send-off show at Auckland venue Galatos in September 2014, ahead of a tour to New York. Audio

To celebrate the new documentary film in cinemas now, Anika Moa, Samuel Scott (Phoenix Foundation), Anthonie Tonnon and Clicks (Anna Coddington and Dick Johnson) re-interpret favorite songs by iconic Dunedin band The Chills.

A young New Zealander entered a Japanese hospital in psychosis. He left braindead. His grieving mother is fighting for change. By Susan Strongman.

Small Island Big Song is an album that unites indigenous musicians from seafaring cultures across the Pacific & Indian Oceans. Video, Audio

'Choirs on Fridays' continues with Passio - a work conceived by the late Jack Body and performed at Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Kiwi violinist Ben Morrison will return to the newly restored Christchurch Town Hall this weekend. These days he's a first violinist in the Vienna Philharmonic. Audio

The local government of Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands has bought hundreds of acres of land in Hawaii as a climate change bolthole.

Water supplies in the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, are being increasingly affected by logging upstream from the catchment.

Indonesia has a new ambassador in neighbouring Papua New Guinea.

The Cook Islands shadow police minister says the government, police and border control need to wake up to presence of methamphetamine in the country.

There are 25.5 million refugees registered with the United Nations but less than one percent get resettled. What's it like to be a refugee in New Zealand? Audio

Our Changing World - The fungal disease aspergillosis has caused the deaths of three kākāpō chicks in the past week. This is in addition to an adult kākāpō which died from the same disease two weeks ago. Audio

The Detail - Since its formation in the late 1990s, Destiny Church has floated in and out of the news cycle. Audio

It's New Zealand Music Month, but how much do you really know about Aotearoa's musical goings-on? Take our NZ Music quiz to find out.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has praised Fiji as a strong committed partner in peacekeeping and for taking a leading role in the battle against climate change.

Staff and students at the University of the South Pacific gathered today to demand greater transparency from the university's administration.

Leaders from the Pacific's Freely Associated States are to make a joint official visit to the White House for the first t