Today on Q, with guest host Ali Hassan: Welsh singer Tom Jones looks back on his music and relationship with fame, the loss of his wife of 59 years, and why covering other artists' songs is like acting in a Shakespeare play. Ahead of the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, our screen panellists John Semley and Teri Hart hand out prizes to films in categories that don't exist. Canadian actor Hamza Haq discusses his starring role on the CTV medical drama Transplant, and shares how it feels to finally play a fully-formed character after years of getting one-note bit parts. Olympic ice dancing champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir talk about their book, Tessa and Scott: Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold, and break down their most iconic performances.

Judas and the Black Messiah director Shaka King tells us why it was important for the film to set the record straight on the Black Panther Party's legacy. Canadian rocker Art d'Ecco talks about his new album, In Standard Definition, which looks at our relationship with television and why we're all too eager to escape into drama on the small screen. Canadian actress Tamara Taylor, who recently joined the cast of Law & Order: Organized Crime, describes what it's like to step into a show with a huge legacy.

Veteran actor Paul Raci talks about his first-ever Oscar nomination for his performance in the critically acclaimed film Sound of Metal, in which he plays a deaf mentor to a heavy metal drummer who's losing his hearing. Multi-Grammy-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington — who's played alongside the likes of Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston and Joni Mitchell — reflects on her incredible career and shares how a Canadian jazz legend, the late Oscar Peterson, helped her on her journey. Halifax-born actor Eli Goree, known for his roles on Riverdale and HBO's Ballers, discusses his performance as Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) in the Oscar-nominated film One Night in Miami.

Directors T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay talk about their triumphant new Tina Turner documentary, how they built a relationship with the iconic singer, and what it was like sharing her incredible life story. Culture critic Kathleen Newman-Bremang unpacks the recent backlash to Amazon Prime's new Black horror anthology Them, which is being criticized for its gratuitous racist violence. Kim's Convenience star Andrew Phung shares a playlist of songs that remind him of his hometown of Calgary. Nomadland director Chloé Zhao talks about her critically acclaimed film, casting non-actors, and making films for people who don't agree with her.

Toronto's Giacomo Gianniotti, who played Dr. Andrew DeLuca on Grey's Anatomy, discusses his transition from acting to directing one of network TV's biggest successes. Canadian filmmaker Kelly Fyffe-Marshall opens up about her highly publicized experience with racial profiling and how she channelled that trauma into a short film called Black Bodies. Canadian country singer Brett Kissel talks about the inspiration for his new song Die To Go Home off his latest album What Is Life. Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor shares the story behind his new solo album, Share the Love, which was set for release in 2020 until the pandemic prompted him to scrap the original studio version and re-record it live off the floor.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones discusses her new memoir, Last Chance Texaco, in which she details her tumultuous childhood, family history and the reason why she walked away from fame. Our fashion contributor Mosha Lundström Halbert fills us in on mushroom leather and how the revolutionary sustainable material might change the future of fashion. In an unaired clip from last week's interview with Merry Clayton, the singer discusses her cover of Neil Young's protest song Southern Man, as well as her backup vocals on Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama — a song written in response to Young's track (find our full interview with Clayton on Thursday, April 8's episode). Canadian photographer Chris Buck, best known for his surreal celebrity portraits, talks about turning his lens toward the partners of exotic dancers for his latest series, Gentlemen's Club: Partners of Exotic Dancers.

Country singer Corb Lund discusses his first album in five years, Agricultural Tragic, and explains why he's now speaking out against the Alberta government's plan to allow open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Radio producer and filmmaker Mira Burt-Wintonick, the daughter of renowned Montreal documentarian Peter Wintonick, reflects on finishing her late father's project about Utopia with a new documentary called Wintopia. Juno-nominated Canadian rock duo Crown Lands talk about their new Rush-inspired song, Context: Fearless Pt. 1, and share what it means to them to get the seal of approval from Rush's team. Canadian filmmaker Wendy Morgan talks about the unique way she represents music in her debut feature film, Sugar Daddy, and gives us a behind the scenes look at some of the iconic music videos she's directed for artists like Janelle Monáe and Gnarls Barkley.

Canadian record producer Doc McKinney looks back on The Weeknd's early rise and tells us how his debut mixtape, House of Balloons, helped change the sound of pop music. On this week's Q This music panel, A. Harmony and Vivek Shraya talk about the public reaction to rapper DMX's reported drug overdose (programming note: this segment was recorded shortly before news broke of DMX's death on April 9). CBC Radio's This Is That host Pat Kelly fills us in on his latest project, an experimental comedy series called The Slowest Show, inspired by slow TV. Canadian actress Alison Pill reflects on her role in Amazon's new horror anthology, Them, about a Black family in the 1950s who move into an all-white neighborhood where malevolent forces threaten them.

Singer Merry Clayton talks about her first solo album in more than 25 years, Beautiful Scars, which she made in the aftermath of a life-altering car accident. Actress Kim Novak discusses her new book of paintings, Kim Novak: Her Art and Life, and shares how her art helped her cope with the pressures of Hollywood's studio system. Interdisciplinary artist Sook-Yin Lee talks about paying tribute to her late partner, Adam Litovitz, by finishing the album they started together, titled Jooj Two.

Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill talks about songwriting from the vantage point of fictional characters, the band's evolution and why he wanted to release their new album as an NFT. In celebration of National Poetry Month, our books columnist Jael Richardson fills us in on Jen Sookfong Lee's debut poetry collection, The Shadow List. Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski talks about his award-winning drama Anne at 13,000 ft, about a shy, socially awkward daycare worker whose life is transformed after she skydives for the first time.