Weekend Variety Wireless With Graeme Hill On Radiolive

This hour, Max Cryer joins Ryan Bradley in for RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to banter over words, their origin and their meaning. Max and Ryan take a look at the origin of the word 'vote', answer why red-haired men are called blue and try and explain the word 'Quantum'. Then, A trio of visionary feminist theatre makers Nisha Madhan, Julia Croft and Virginia Frankovich have created a play called MEDUSA. Using personal experience as creative inspiration, they have crafted MEDUSA as a protest against what they see as stagnating views of feminism in New Zealand. They reckon the movement isnt being taken as seriously as it should, with feminism as more of a fad commodity than a legitimate political standing. Director Julia Croft joins Ryan Bradley in for RadioLIVE's Graeme Hill to take a look at their new show hitting Wellington and Auckland this September and October. Theyre also all about making meaningful art that is a form activism that speaks to real world issues, like the #metoo movement. The team use the classic