TWO taxi drivers whose cabs were used to get people in Liverpool talking about art will be featured on the small screen this week.

Cameras were installed in Brian Bretherton and Stan Hicklin’s black cabs to urge people to speak about art in general, and the 2007 Turner Prize.

Footage is now on show in a fully working taxi at Liverpool’s Tate gallery, alongside entries in the prestigious art competition.

The Turner Prize winner is announced on Monday.

Now the drivers’ views, together with snippets of their chats with passengers, will be broadcast on More4 this Saturday.

Mr Bretherton, who appears in the programme, said: “Modern art, like going to the shops, going to a football match or going to work, is just another part of life.

“I’ve come to understand that art doesn’t necessarily have to be pretty. It can have a meaning.

“It doesn’t mean I like it but it’s worth the time to find out what the person was aiming at, and not try to just dismiss it out of hand.”

The Taxi Project has run since June, with drivers taking part in 10 two-hour weekly discussion sessions in the gallery, debating modern and contemporary works in the Tate collection.

Jean Tormey, Tate curator for public programmes, said: “We’re absolutely delighted about how it’s gone. We’ve cut them together and there is now an hour of material being screened inside the taxi.”