This week's highlights is all about fans and fandom, with Gates McFadden aka Dr Beverly Crusher from Star Trek: The Next Generation on the convention circuit, Australian filmmaker Jess Leski on her boy band fan documentary I Used to Be Normal, Alicon brings Bronies (male My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) fans to Adelaide, and hosts of Fansplaining podcast Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel.

Actor turned director Jeremy Sims on his 2018 documentary about Wayne Gardner. Twin Peaks alumni Sheryl Lee explains how cult character Laura Palmer has shaped her life and career, and screenwriter Debra Oswald talks us through her top TV picks.

Kenji Uranishi builds with clay in the Hub on Art studio, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin's pie art, Clever Kids on the Drover's Wife, and paint-maker David Coles on the history of colours in his book Chromatopia.

Man Booker winner Arundhati Roy on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Christopher de Hamel introduces some remarkable manuscripts, comedian Kirsty Webeck gives a breakdown of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and US librarian Annie Spence on her break up and love letters to books.

The acclaimed production of Calamity Jane starring Virginia Gay continues to tour, Bill Bailey on his musical idols and the Shakespearian origins of knock-knock jokes, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson explains the transformation actors undergo to embody their characters, and Opera Australia's regional tour of Madame Butterfly features children from the local community.

We kick off summer highlights with Karamo Brown and Tan France on the Queer Eye reboot, Theo and Nathan Saidden are brothers and stars of the hit Youtube channel - and now ABC Comedy series - Superwog, Mel Campbell on the internet's quest for purity, and comedian Dilruk Jayasinha on his obsession with Friends growing up in Sri Lanka.

Bradley Cooper talks about his directorial debut A Star is Born. Jodie Whittaker on playing the first female Dr in the Doctor Who franchise, and Game of Thrones production designer Deb Riley fresh from her 2018 Emmys win.

Two times Miles Franklin winner talks about his latest novel, A Stolen Season, about the morality of the Iraq War.

In our first edition of summer highlights, we revisit Tony Albert's Aboriginalia collection and political works, Thomas Laird on the emotional experience of photographing the murals of Tibet, legally deaf and blind artist Cathy Staughton and her friend and muse Catherine Bell, and Davida Allen on the often untold difficulties of motherhood.

Amy Bloom reimagines the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, Tayari Jones and An American Marriage and umbrellas in fiction with Marion Rankine.