Features

Musicians from Pacific and Indian Ocean islands recorded songs with traditional instruments and in their own languages for the new album Small Island Big Song. Video, Audio

Follow a narrow, winding coastal road past pohutukawa-fringed beaches and you'll find Colville – an isolated town with a strong, vibrant community. Country Life meets some locals. Audio, Gallery

This week the eclectic David Morriss ventures into the garden and picks a bunch of flowers.

How much do you really know about Aotearoa's musical goings-on? Take our NZ music quiz to find out.

Week in Politics - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just returned from another international success. When Parliament resumes next week there'll be nothing National can do to take it away from her.

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.

This week's selection features hymns with a theme of light including Lead, Kindly Light, and I want to walk as a child of the light. We've printed the words so that you can sing along. Audio

A delightfully varied concert from the 2017 Adam Chamber Music Festival that includes two cello sonatas by Beethoven.

In the third opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle we meet a new hero, Siegfried. How will the Ring shape his fate? Erica Challis takes us through the themes, ahead of tomorrow's broadcast from The Met. Audio

Sometimes the best way to deal with difficult real-life topics is to explore them in the world of fiction, says writer Neal Shusterman. Audio

Golden Bay farmer Wayne Langford was in his early 30s when his brain "cooked itself like a tractor engine". Now he leads a global community tackling depression among farmers. Audio, Gallery

It's NZ Music Month and this week Nick features NZ jazz musicians who are engaging with their heritage through their music, including Mark de Clive-Lowe, Harry Harrison, and Umar Zakaria.

Te Kōkī Trio plays music by Brahms and Shostakovich, with the NZ première of a work by Avner Dorman.

Jill Abramson was the first woman to become executive editor of The New York Times in her book Merchants of Truth she speaks of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade. Audio

An RNZ investigation into the death, two years ago today, of a New Zealand man in a Japanese psychiatric hospital has revealed inconsistencies in the medical documentation used to justify his extreme treatment.

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