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The Liverpool Biennial, the UK\\u2019s 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\\u2019s theme \\u2013 uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost things \\u2013 which reflects on Liverpool\\u2019s 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\\u2019s years of economic crisis in the 1970s, and there\\u2019s 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\\u2019t Pay? We Won\\u2019t Pay! and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

For Dave Johns, the lead role in Ken Loach\\u2019s 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\\nPresenter: Ekene Akalawu