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The Liverpool Biennial, the UK鈥檚 largest contemporary visual arts festival, begins this weekend. Arts journalist Laura Robertson reviews, and the curator of the biennial, Khanyisile Mbongwa, discuss coming up with this year鈥檚 theme 鈥� uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost things 鈥� which reflects on Liverpool鈥檚 history as a slave port but also provides a sense of hope and joy.

Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright Dario Fo was famous for plays that careered between farce and current affairs. He wrote his most successful plays during Italy鈥檚 years of economic crisis in the 1970s, and there鈥檚 been an upsurge in productions of them in the UK this year. Playwrights Deborah McAndrew and Tom Basden discuss their respective adaptations of They Don鈥檛 Pay? We Won鈥檛 Pay! and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

For Dave Johns, the lead role in Ken Loach鈥檚 multi-award winning film, I, Daniel Blake, marked his debut as a film actor. His performance as a man trapped and impoverished in the Catch-22 of the benefits system was admired by many. Now Dave has adapted the film for the stage. It opened at Northern Stage in Newcastle and begins a nationwide tour next week. He talks to Nick Ahad retelling the story of the film in a new way.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Presenter: Ekene Akalawu