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Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham. "Chatty 'pon the Mic" - the influence of deejays in Jamaican music. Audio

Last week SRO investigated complaints about the new direction Mangare's Art Centre is taking under Auckland Council control. The former director of another local gallery, Suzette van Dorsser contacted… Audio

Senior Curator at the Auckland Art Gallery, discussing three exhibitions: My Country - Contemporary Art from Black Australia; Jonathan Jones Untitled [sum of the parts] 2010, and; Five Maori Painters.

Chair of the newly revamped Arts Council of New Zealand. Audio

Swaying to the broad range of arts and culture from around the Pacific is Samoan/Pakeha playwright and independent theatre producer Leilani Unasa. Audio

A new report predicts the six big social and technological trends coming up for museums, from social entrepreneurship to robots. Audio

Jivester, editor and publisher Fergus Barrowman on the sizzle and pop of a snazzy beat. Audio

Dunedin's annual fringe arts festival has taken over the city giving thousands of people a glimpse of new artists and their sometimes out-there ideas. Audio

New Zealand-born Samoan photographer Greg Semu awarded Creative New Zealand artist residency in Berlin. Audio

Misha Uteev came to New Zealand five years ago, and it's here that he began to consolidate his signature style which consists largely of portraits. He's a graffiti artist who also works in other… Audio

Joystick ninja and GamePlanet editor Matt Maguire solves the riddles, beats the bad guys and saves the Earth countless times on a myriad of gaming platforms. Predictions about games and the games… Audio

Katy Perry's eyelashes, a new sculpture for Christchurch, a big book prize for New Zealand art historians, and when is it okay and not okay for artists to smash things? Audio

Circuses aren't what they used to be - the whole Cirque du Soleil movement has made them all about the possibilities of the human body and the inspiration of the imagination. Audio

RNZ Concert's Sound Lounge host Kate Mead strokes her bow on both contemporary classical music plus recent releases of old masters. Brooklyn Rider playing Beethoven like you've never heard Beethoven… Audio

How a newspaper campaign aims to help secure a 10-million-dollar Hundertwasser art gallery for Whangarei, after a very long wait and the threat by a group of local councillors to scuttle it. Audio

The fate of a potential Hundertwasser art gallery for Whangarei now hangs on a last-minute public opinion poll. Audio

Shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird. Dylan Horrocks' new graphic novel Incomplete Works. Audio

Australian artists boycott the Sydney Biennale, and the New Zealand Festival is underway in Wellington. Audio

While the New Zealand Festival features many live theatre and music performances, there are also several major arts exhibitions. Audio

Tens of thousands of visitors celebrated Napier's Art Deco history over the weekend. Audio

A Papua New Guinea NGO details its efforts to provide training opportunities for disadvantaged youth. Audio

Every year, the city destroyed by New Zealand's worst natural disaster in 1931 celebrates its renaissance into an art deco treasure. Thousands of people looking like extras from Downton Abbey will… Audio

University of Auckland ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke raps about Hip Hop music and culture. Audio

Auckland councillors fear controversy over the one million dollar artwork modelled on a state house, destined for the waterfront, may scare off future benefactors. Audio

Glitter trees, exhibitions at the New Zealand Festival, and collecting Katy Perry's false eyelashes. Audio