“I’ve been given this privileged position, and I have to abuse it.” From tormenting nerds on Hard Quiz to putting fellow comedians through their paces on Taskmaster, telly’s reigning king of comedy Tom Gleeson may have a tough facade, but behind the scenes he tells us he’s a normal dad who loves trigonometry – and swears he’s on good terms with everyone he’s ever made a mean joke about. More highlights in this edition: Say g’day to Stephen, the Canadian street paper vendor who travelled all the way to Brisbane to achieve his boyhood dream: to meet a koala. Ione Skye tells us that compared to being a 90s It girl, she lives a “weirdly normcore” life in her Letter to My Younger Self. Richard Roxburgh plays imprisoned journo Peter Greste in The Correspondent and hopes the new film will draw attention to the journalists “paying a huge price” to tell the truth. Photographer Valery Poshtarov has been asking fathers and sons across the world to simply hold hands, capturing emotional portraits of love, masculinity and time’s strange passage in The Big Picture. Singer-songwriter Marlon Williams reflects on returning to his roots with his first album sung in te reo Māori, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Director Philip Barantini and writer Jack Thorne of streaming sensation Adolescence hope the conversation on toxic masculinity’s impact on young people doesn’t end once the TV is turned off. Jessica Stanley’s homesick, lovesick characters are trying their best in new novel Consider Yourself Kissed. Caught between Melbourne and London, their author relates. You wouldn’t eat a chocolate cane toad… That’s the pitch behind Australia’s own Easter Bilby! The local twist on the despicable Easter Bunny is the star of this issue’s Sarah Di Lorenzo shares her Papou’s recipe for Stuffed Capsicums, bringing a taste of the Mediterranean down under in Tastes Like Home.
