• Make your mother happy – Terence Stamp interview inside!

Make your mother happy – Terence Stamp interview inside!

Issue 1041

Make your mother happy – Terence Stamp interview inside!

 As Mother’s Day approaches, we have an extended Letter To My Younger Self with the charming and candid Terence Stamp, who talks about Muhammad Ali, his itinerant life, and how a man can dress well…

Also in this week’s Big Issue…

Gemma Arterton on being brought up in a council flat by a single mum, and her new film Byzantium…

The things we all thought we could do – but it was our mothers who had been doing them all along…

Samira Ahmed talks Philip Larkin, pornography and sex education…

Former Catholic Herlad editor Peter Stanford on what the next pope needs to do to get his house in order…

Why a rent cap is more than overdue…

Plus, Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas getting jiggy, Belgium’s second most famous actor, the week’s cultural highlights in your area, Street Lights, competitions, and much more!