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The 50th episode! Surely not? There is plenty of clanging, including some competitive clanging over Armando Iannucci. Sales has been getting chummy with Iannucci and Bill Nighy, while Crabb has been hanging out with the world's 50 best chefs. There is an hysterical meltdown over a list of the 2017 AFL players' names. • British actor Bill Nighy talks about his latest work - Leigh Sales (7.30 Interview, April 3 2017) • Armando Iannucci labels Donald Trump a 'walking satire balloon' - Leigh Sales (7.30 Interview, March 22 2017) • Armando Iannucci in conversation with Annabel Crabb - Wheeler Centre • The Americans: Season 5 - (FX) • Some of the ways TV critics have tried to get me to watch "The Americans" - Tom Batten (New Yorker, March 30, 2017) • AFL 2017 in names only: the only player analysis you'll need this footy season - Hugh Robertson (The Monthly, April 2017) • Why are there so few female chief executives? Why are so many CEOs named Peter? - Peter Martin (SMH, March 8 2015) • Someone Threw The 'Veep' Music Over That Awkward Trump Non-Signing - (via The Huffington Post, April 2 2017) • Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and Bartlet - Maureen Dowd (New York Times, Sep 8 2008) • Sassy Trump - YouTube • World's 50 Best Restaurants 2017 - (Good Food, April 6 2017) • Chef's Table: A look at the lives and kitchens of world-famous chefs - (Netflix) • Top female chef brilliantly shuts down sexist question at 50 Best Talks - Jane de Graaff • (Kitchen, Nine Network, April 3 2017)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So soon, but here they are again! Crabb and Sales discuss hospital visits, the Missing Richard Simmons podcast plus new books and TV. Inadvertently Crabb's mum, Christobel, becomes the first ever Chat 10 Looks 3 phone interview. Who is the mysterious Tony Jones look-a-like who is hanging around? • Sydney Children's Hospital - website • - see also the Starlight Room Broadcast - things to do in Hospital. • Missing Richard Simmons - Podcast • 'Missing Richard Simmons,' the Morally Suspect Podcast - by Amanda Hess, NYT, 2017 Mar 14 • What Happened When I Confronted My Cruellest Troll - by Lindy West (via Guardian 3 Feb 2015) • Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman - by Lindy West • Eileen - by Ottessa Moshfegh • Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller • Listen, Liberal: What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? - by Thomas Frank • The Art of Rivalry - by Sebastian Smee • The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - H.W. Brands • (held in quite a few Australian libraries, see Trove holdings.) • This is Us - NBC drama • Swiss Family Robinson - AudiobookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sales finds a room with a piano and invites Crabb for a sing-a-long inspired by the Book of Mormon. Crabb discusses some terrific events she saw at the 2017 Adelaide Festival. To top it off there is the important discovery that Crabb and Sales have a mutual love of the number 12. • Book of Mormons (currently in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre) • The Force Awakens - Star Wars Ep 7 • Adelaide Festival 2017; Crabb's highlights: • - Saul - Barrie Kosky (George Frideric Handel's Saul) • - Betroffenheit - Electric Company Theatre / Kidd Pivot • - Secret River - Andrew Bovell's adaptation of Kate Grenville's novel directed by Neil Armfield • - Secret River - by Kate Grenville • - Coral : Rekindling Venus - Lynette Wallworth • - Pythagoras's Trousers - by Margaret Wertheim • - Crochet Coral Reef - project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim • The Garden of Unearthly Delights in Adelaide is named in reference to the Hieronymus Bosch painting Garden of Earthly Delights (reference: Adelaide Now: Adelaide Fringe: Garden of Unearthly Delights.) • Man Gets Romney 'R' Tattooed On His Face - (via http://abcnews.go.com 26 October 2012) • Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery S5 Ep3 Annabel Crabb (on iView until Sep 2020) • Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery S3 Ep3 Leigh Sales (no longer on iView, but can be purchased)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Summer viewing and reading has thrown up all sorts of questions for Crabb and Sales: Why are they more attached to Prince Phillip than they ever thought they would be? How can you turn shitty audio quality into a useful art form? Will they ever be able to go for a whole episode without mentioning Helen Garner? Plus should they write their own theme tune? • The Crown - starring Claire Foy, Matt Smith, John Lithgow • Homecoming - Gimlet Media podcast • Cbeebies Bedtime Story - Tom Hardy • The Encounter - directed by Simon McBurney, performed by Richard Katz • La La Land - starring Ryan Gossling and Emma Stone • Movies in which Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone have Co-starred - via Pop Sugar • Singin' in the Rain - starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor • Jackie - starring Natalie Portman • Frost Nixon - starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella • A Question of Leadership: Paul Keating, Political Fighter - by Michael Gordon. (1993 book now out of print, but held in a number of libraries plus some second hand shops.) • Inauguration Day: A Bad Lip Reading of Donald Trump's Inauguration - via YouTube • The Netherlands welcomes Trump in his own words - via YouTube • Life Accordion to Trump : Huw Parkinson - via YouTube • Room to Read - 2017 Sydney Wine Gala • Monkey Grip - by Helen Garner • Left Luggage - by Andrew Christie (or via https://paintingthebridge.com/) • A Girl in Time - by John Birmingham • Postcards from the Edge - by Carrie Fisher • Postcards from the Edge - starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine • After - by Nikki Gemmell (publication date: March 2017) • Black Mirror - starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve, Michael Kelly • Good Wife - starring Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Christine Baranski • Still Lucky: Why you should feel optimistic about Australia and its people - by Rebecca Huntley • Mad Libs - word gamesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is one week until Christmas and the year is nearly over. Grab a glass of champagne and some snacks and join Crabb and Sales a they discuss the best of 2016. (Hang on! How long is this episode!?) • When I Get a Minute - ABC iView • The Book of Mormon - the Musical • Hamilton - the Musical • Weiner - the Documentary • Spotlight - Featuring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams • Revenant - Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio • The Force Awakens - Star Wars: Episode VII • Veep - 2016 Season 4 • The Americans - Featuring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys • Bloodline - Featuring: Kyle Chandler and Ben Mendelsohn • Catastrophe - Fearturing: Sharon Horgan, • Katering Show - ABC iView • You Can't Ask That - ABC iView • Slate Podcasts • Bowraville Podcast - via the Australian • Phoebe's Fall - via the Age • 'A horrific thing': the death of the Manrique-Lutz family - by Ava Benny-Morrison (SMH Good Weekend - Dec 17 2016) • My Dad Wrote a Porno - Podcast • The Dollop - Podcast [Special mention: Fed Ex Fight 705 episode & The Rube episode] • Revisionist History - Podcast [Special mention: The Big Man Can't Shoot episode] • The Cook's Companion - by Stephanie Alexander • The Cook's Table - by Stephanie Alexander • Community - by Hetty McKinnon • Neighbourhood - by Hetty McKinnoon • How to make Guillaume Brahimi's Raspberry and Pistachio Trifle (via SMH Good Food - Dec 9 2016) • Jamie Oliver's Christmas cake - with lots of fruit and lots of booze • 'Asian-style cured trout with rice paper crackers' : Gourmet Traveller (Australia) - December / Christmas edition 2016 (Note: recipe is currently available in the hardcopy only) • The Cook and the Baker - by Cherie Bevan, Tass Tauroa • Commonwealth - by Ann Patchett • The Girls - by Emma Cline • Olivia Newton-John and John Farnham together again - Interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30) - Twitter photo: "You look like the members of a cult, but quite a nice one with good, wholesome food" • Spaghetti Tree - Restaurant • The Dry - by Jane Harper • Our Souls at Night - by Kent Haruf • My Name Is Lucy Barton - by Elizabeth Strout • The Swans of Fifth Avenue - by Melanie Benjamin • Flesh Wounds - by Richard Glover • Everywhere I Look - by Helen Garner • A Room of One's Own - by Virginia Woolf • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - by T.S. Eliot • Macavity: The Mystery Cat - by T.S. Eliot • Macavity in Cats: the Musical - by Andrew Lloyd Weber (via YouTube) • Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor E. Frankl • The Official History of ASIO (3 Volumes) • - Spy Catchers - 1949-1963 • - The Protest Years - 1963-1975 • - The Secret Cold War - 1975-1989 • Victoria: The Queen - by Julia Baird • The Crown - Starring: Claire Foy, Vanessa Kirby • The Life-Writer - by David Constantine • Lincoln in the Bardo - by George Saunders • Eileen - by Ottessa Moshfegh • Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son - by Mark Colvin • Water Colour of Leigh and Annabel - by Jason Roberts (@jasonpainter on Instagram) Christmas gift to Crabb from Sales. Painted during filming of 'When I Get a Minute' Episode 3 • The Hair Elastic Bracelet - Christmas gift to Sales from Crabb.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sincerely apologetic about the audio quality from the last episode, Crabb and Sales lock themselves away in a silent office to talk of recent adventures at Parliament House and how great it was to see Helen Garner featured in the New Yorker. Although it is nice and quiet, there is plenty of clanging going on. JD Vance's book is discussed, plus what politicians say they will be reading over summer. • Inside the Commons - BBC • James McGrath Al desko with Annabel Crabb Series 1 Ep 2 • Royal Menus - Jake Smith's private collection of historic royal menu cards • Labor in the Kitchen (Note: this is not held in single Australian library, but for anyone super keen, there is one 2nd hand copy for sale in Bendigo!) • Deutschland 83 - German-language spy drama (Sundance) • Helen Garner's Savage Self-Scrutiny - By James Wood - The New Yorker (12 Dec, 2016) • The Spare Room - by Helen Garner • Carpool Karaoke (via YouTube) • Crowded House on reuniting after 20 years - Interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30) • Timberlake on Trolls, embracing failure and coming to terms with his career - Interviewed by Leigh Sales (via ABC 7.30) • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - by J. D. Vance • Revisionist History - a podcast from Malcolm Gladwell • Reading lists corral politicians' interests, values, ambitions - Troy Bramston - The Australian (6 Dec 2016) (Note: pay wall restricted access) • The Cook's Table - by Stephanie Alexander • 100 Tweets That Made British People Piss Themselves in 2016 - BuzzFeed • Reflections on True Friendship - by Andrew O'Hagan - NYT (23 Nov, 2016) • Please Like Me - featuring Josh Thomas (via ABC)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Warning: bad audio quality!) Sales takes Crabb to a new café but tells her the incorrect name of the place - mistaking the band 'Something for Kate' for the café 'Something for Jess'. The bad news is Crabb will never be able to find it again. The good news is there's something for everyone in this episode, from American politics to raspberry mousse. (*with apologies from the bumbling Sales to the lovely people at 'Something for Jess') • Something for Jess - Café in Chippendale • Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush - by Ron Suskind via NYT Magazine (17 Oct 2004) • 2016 Election exit polls - Washington Post • The 13 most amazing findings in the 2016 exit poll - Washington Post • More from Neighbourhood by Hetty McKinnon • Israeli Couscous / Ptitim - Wikipedia • Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale's Demented Double Act on 'Veep' - by Sam Ansderson via NYT Magazine (9 Apr 2015) • Veep - featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale • The Office box set • Gareth Keenan from the Office - Wikipedia • Rosehaven - featuring Luke McGregor, Celia Pacquola • Please Like Me - featuring Josh Thomas and a cast of favourites • Sewing teddy bears for sick kids - meet 12 year old Campbell - via The Feed (SBS)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Defiantly avoiding the Melbourne Cup, Crabb and Sales hide themselves away to discuss recent developments in the US Election. Sales is proud to announce that she has had great success growing sweetpeas. New podcasts plus a couple of recent books written by colleagues are discussed. Crabb is horrified to learn Sales' theory that contacts who stick around for many years may well be undercover operatives. • Leigh Sales interviews Michelle and Stevie Payne on 7.30 - via ABC • Leigh Sales interviews Richie McCaw on 7.30 - via ABC • Who is Johnny Eales!? - via Wikipedia • A handy explainer on the Clinton emails and Anthony Weiner - via New York Times • Weiner - the film • Who's Up, Who's Down (Leigh Sales review of 'Weiner') - The Monthly • Even though Crabb later discovers that Kaz Cooke does not specifically know about research on gardens and satisfaction, she does have a good book with lots of other stuff about what makes women satisfied! Women's Stuff - Kaz Cooke • The Smug Bundt (photo) • Leigh's Sweetpea photos: • - Sweetpeas growing: First, Second, Third • - The First Flower • - Sweetpea Victory • - The First Bunch • Phoebe's Fall - podcast • Patton Oswalt: 'I'll Never Be at 100 Percent Again' by Jason Zimoman - via New York Times • The Berlin Patient - podcast • Victoria - by Julia Baird • Light and Shadow - by Mark ColvinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Even though it has not rained for days, Crabb still manages to get drenched by passing traffic - very 'sitcom' don't you think? Detailed discussion ensues on a range of topics: new TV shows, perfect roast potatoes, glorious salads, women in law, 'The Boss' and whether you can ever look at too many piles of rice and fish without getting to eat them. Does Crabb stop this recording just as Sales is launching into a song!? • Divorce - starring Sarah Jessica Parker • Sex and the City • Kitchen Cabinet - S1 Ep4 with Julie Bishop • Catastrophe (Season 2) • Neighbourhood (Salads, Sweets and Stories from Home and Abroad) - by Hetty McKinnon • Special Delivery - by Annabel Crabb • The Party Room (Podcast) - presented by Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly • Women in Law Breakfast: Elizabeth Evatt, Peg Lusink and Josephine Maxwell • Viktor & Rolf Exhibition - National Gallery of Victoria • The First Monday in May - Documentary • Fight Like a Girl - by Clementine Ford • Born to Run - by Bruce Springsteen • We Are Alive: Bruce Springsteen at 62 - David Remnick (New Yorker, 30 July 2012) • Jiro Dreams of Sushi - DocumentarySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales analyse the 2nd US presidential debate, then briefly ponder why there is a Pokemon on Sales' desk. Discussion switches to unsympathetic main characters, Ben Mendelsohn's chin, a couple of new podcasts and the value of political satire. • The Second 2016 US Presidential Debate - via PBS • Pokemon - via Pokemon.com • Leigh Sales with Pokemon head zubat - via Twitter • Pokemon Go has let me enter my son's world - by Julia Baird (via SMH) • The Girl on the Train - by Paula Hawkins • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov • Sopranos - DVD • Bloodline - DVD • Team Effort - Podcast by Ed Kavalee • Slate's Political Gabfest - Podcast • Slate's Trumpcast - Podcast • The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right" - by Jon Ronson • Alec Baldwin as Trump on SNL - via Guadian (SNL official site geoblocked in Australia) • Ep 10. The Satire Paradox - Revisionist History Podcast • Proud to Stand With You - Mike Pence Twitter CommentSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales watch the first Clinton and Trump presidential debate in a secret tropical location. 48 hours later, while drinking cocktails, they assess the debate. Discussion then switches to holiday reading. • The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump - via PBS • The Tropical Holiday Selfie - via Twitter • Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy • Middlemarch - by George Eliot • Vanity Fair - by William Makepeace Thackeray • The Beautiful Lie - DVD • Where the Suckers Moon: the life and death of an advertising campaign - by Randall Rothenberg • Donoghue v Stevenson - via Wikipedia • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot • Red Sparrow - by Jason Matthews • The Americans - DVD • The Dry - by Jane Harper • An Isolated Incident - by Emily Maquire • Our Souls at Night - by Kent Haruf • The Girl on the Train - by Paula Hawkins • Beside Myself - by Ann MorganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Canberra Writers' Festival. Recorded in a bathroom. Without microphones. Enjoy. • The Americans • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell • Revisionist History a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell • Rube podcast by Dollop • Fed Ex podcast by Dollop • My Dad Wrote a Porno podcast • Drunk History • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett • The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett • Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty • Catastrophe via iView • The Night Manager starring Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston • Black Mirror directed by Charlie Brooker • Why Am I So Fat by Sara Benincasa • Bridget Jones Baby starring Renee ZellwegerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Crabb and Sales discuss coincidences, John Grisham novels, mountain climbing, Mormons and what it's like to get an early, sneak peek at a feature-length Weiner (the documentary on former New York senator and Mayoral candidate: Anthony Weiner).Ask yourself this: in order to keep your place in a borrowed book, do you:a) insert a bookmark; orb) dog-ear the pageCrabb and Sales reveal all on this episode. • Beyond Coincidence: Amazing Stories of Coincidence & the Mystery and Mathematics Behind Them by Martin Plimmer and Brian King • Commonwealth by Ann Patchett • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett • The Street Lawyer by John Grisham • The Firm by John Grisham • Sherpa: Trouble on Everest • Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest by Lincoln Hall • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer • Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way by Jon Krakauer • Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer • Weiner directed by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg • Carlos Danger theme song via The Daily ShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The election is over. We may even have a Prime Minister (at least for the next few months or so). Crabb and Sales reflect on what it's like being chained to a desk for nearly seven hours with Scott Morrison and Penny Wong. Crabb gets her hands on Antony Green's (software) package and Sales has been spending a lot of time at home curled up with a variety of good books. Plus: What does Obama do after dark? Let's find out. • Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh • The One Who Got Away by Caroline Overington • The Twisted Knot by J M Peace • The Healing Party by Micheline Lee • Gotham by Nick Earls • Venice by Nick Earls • Vancouver by Nick Earls • Juneau by Nick Earls • Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane by Elspeth Muir • High Sobriety: My Year Without Booze by Jill Stark • Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl • I Saw A Man by Owen Sheers • Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty • Obama After Dark by Michael D Shear via The New YorkerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The election campaign is taking its toll. Crabb and Sales are both sick, but the upside of spending so much time on flights with politicians is that you get a chance to read books, watch movies and binge-watch television. Grab the Vicks Vaporub and a box of tissues and enjoy this episode. • Chat 10 Looks 3: Fifty Shades of Giggling starring Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales • Two Grumpy Hacks podcast by Dennis Atkins and Malcolm Farr • The Dressmaker starring Kate Winslet and Judy Davis • Sisters starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler • Jodie Foster interview with Monique Schafter via ABC 7.30 • Money Monster starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, directed by Jodie Foster • The First Monday in May directed by Andrew Rossi • Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino • The King of Comedy starring Robert de Niro and Jerry Lewis • Misery starring Kathy Bates and James Cann • Die Hard starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins • Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty • The One Who Got Away by Caroline Overington • The Unlikely Warrior by Caroline Overington • The Killing Season: Uncut by Patricia Dunn and Sarah Ferguson • Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes • The Noise of Time by Julian BarnesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded merely moments before they appeared on-stage before an audience of 2000 punters, Crabb and Sales recall some of their investigations into political drama which is based largely on real-life events. Plus, who was Australia's weirdest Prime Minister? You might be surprised who they come up with. • Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner • Bowraville Podcast by Dan Box • The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann • The Mandarin Code by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann • Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb • The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan • Community: Salad Recipes from Arthur Street Kitchen by Hetty McKinnonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Crabb and Sales at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum where they visit the Isabella Blow exhibition, plus a whole list of new podcasts to listen to. • Isabella Blow Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences • Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography by Rupert Everett • Vanished Years by Rupert Everett • Isabella Blow and Alexander McQueen photos via Vanity Fair • The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • Comedy Showdown via ABC iView • Here's the Thing a podcast by Alec Baldwin • Slate's Political Gabfest podcast • Two Grumpy Hacks podcast by Dennis Atkins and Malcolm Farr • Bowraville podcast by Dan Box • The Party Room podcast by Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly • Moranthology by Caitlin Moran • My Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's budget time! Crabb and Sales are sequestered within locked rooms in Canberra to analyse the Australian national budget, and yet they find time to eat a terrible breakfast and have a terrific conversation. • The Hunter by Julia Leigh • The Avalanche: A Love Story by Julia Lee • Farewell to the Father by Timothy Elliott • Gotham: Wisdom Tree by Nick Earls • When I Get a Minute via iViewSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Crabb and Sales launch their latest project: When I Get A Minute. It's the TV show about culture for the chronically time-poor. Exclusive to ABC iView. Watch it now. • The Cook and the Baker by Tass Tauroa and Cherie Bevan • Special Delivery by Annabel Crabb • Helen Garner wins the Windham Campbell prize • Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse • I was Russell Crowe's Stooge by Jack MarxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time to put on makeup. It's time to dress up right. It's time to get things started in Canberra tonight. Join the bunglers in front of the mirror as they get ready for the ABC Showcase. Plus prepare yourself for the next instalment of Flora's Fancies where the story really gets meta. • Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover • The Family Law by Benjamin Law • The Family Law via SBS TV • Making of a Murderer via Netflix • The Making of Making of a Murderer via Here's The Thing by Alec Baldwin • What Errol Morris Thinks of Making a Murderer via Slate • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet MalcolmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The bunglers are back for 2016 and Crabb is clanging like a bell after an encounter with celebrity cook Nigella Lawson. Sales finally gives Crabb her Christmas present and makes her eat cherry strudel that's been dropped on the floor. Warning: possibly the worst audio and level of interruptions ever and that's saying something. • Nigella Lawson and Annabel Crabb in conversation • An Evening with Annabel Crabb at the Adelaide Fringe Festival • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara • The Stand by Stephen King • Destination Sydney exhibition at the S H Erving gallery • The Making of a Murderer via Netflix • The Staircase • Bloodlines via Netflix • Guillame: Food for Family containing the raspberry and pistachio trifle recipe • James Cordon Carpool Karaoke • Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food by Nigella LawsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christmas is here, so it's time for Crabb and Sales to tell us what they thought of the year. Find out their picks for best movies, television, recipes, books and articles. Plus Crabb may have just found the ultimate way to prevent Sales from throwing out her Christmas gift. • Crabb and Sales predict the future on Episode 25 of Chat 10 Looks 3 • Dior and I documentary • Prêt-à-Porter (also released as Ready to Wear) • The September Issue starring Anna Wintour • Iris documentary • Birdman directed by Alejandro Iñárritu • The Revenant by Michael Punke soon to be a movie directed by Alejandro Iñárritu • Open Water - the movie based on the Lonergan's stranded in the ocean • Olive Kitteridge starring Francis McDormand • The Americans starring Keri Russell • Jackson and Lawler interview by Caro Meldrum-Hanna via Four Corners • Master of None starring Aziz Ansari • Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Special Delivery by Annabel Crabb • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi • The Cook and Baker by Cherie Bevan and Tass Tauroa • Simply Nigella: Feel Good Food by Nigella Lawson • Mix and Bake by Belinda Jeffrey • Lucky Us by Amy Bloom • Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski • Natural Born Keller by Amanda Keller • Where the bodies are buried by Patrick Badden Keefe via The Newyorker • The Living Room by Diane Weipert via Love + Radio • 66 Classic dance routines cut together with Uptown Funk via YouTube • Two llamas on the loose in Arizona via YouTube • Mariah Carey and James Packer halloween photos via The Daily Telegraph • Dale Sales IntroductionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Secret diaries are revealed in this episode. What happens when the things you wrote thirty years ago see the light of day. Would anyone want to read it? Would anyone want to publish it? Plus Crabb and Sales tell us about their favourite horror films and books. • Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska • Richard III found in a car park via ABC News • Reality TV series based on the fabulous adventures of Richard III's bones by Annabel Crabb via The Sydney Morning Herald • Born to Rule: The unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull by Paddy Manning • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf • Master of None starring Aziz Ansari • Germaine Greer's 30000-word love letter to Martin Amis via The Guardian • The Book Club with Leigh Sales • A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara • The Child in Time by Ian McEwan • Misery starring James Caan and Kathy Bates • Wolf Creek starring John JarrattSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Julie Andrews. Stephen Fry. Harrison Ford. It's episode where Crabb and Sales shamelessly drop names until the clanging is literally audible. They discuss notable first lines from books. Sales invites Crabb into her bedroom and closes the door. Plus you can play our Chat 10 Looks 3 bingo, where points are scored for: Sales eating on mic, an interruption, a name drop "clang", a book being thrown in the bin (before reading) and lots of schoolgirl giggling. • Mark Colvin's kidney transplant story by Leigh Sales via 7.30 • Special Delivery: Favourite recipes to make and take by Annabel Crabb • Don Dunstan's Cookbook by Don Dunstan • Stephen Fry in conversation with Annabel Crabb • Wilde starring Stephen Fry • Reckoning by Magda Szubanski • Cold Light by Frank Moorhouse • Julie Andrews interview on 7.30 by Leigh Sales • Ferris Bueller's Day Off starring Ben Stein • Thanks to Marion Kruger, Susanne Lowe, Kath Murdoch and Kristy Diffey for supplying the ladies with baked goodsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales celebrate the one year anniversary of the Chat 10 Looks 3 podcast with booze, reviews and Julie Andrews. Brendan is replaced by a three year old. And finally, they take the time to thank their terrific and long-suffering fans and supporters. You guys are all crazy. We love you all. • The Great British Class Calculator via BBC News Magazine • Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox • Who are your real friends? by Monique Schafter via ABC 7.30 • Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler • Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler • When I Grow Up by Tim Minchin • TOFOP (Thirty Odd Foot of Podcast) featuring Wil Anderson • Gruen via ABC iView • The Beautiful Lie via ABC iView • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy • These Things Happen by Greg Fleet • The Boyer Lectures by Michael Fullilove • The Luck of Politics: True Tales of Disaster and Outrageous Fortune by Andrew Leigh • Women's Weekly Best-Ever Collection • Gourmet Traveller • Julie Andrews interview by Alec Baldwin via Here's The ThingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Starting on a sombre note, Crabb and Sales talk about death and dying, before switching to their regular high-spirited routine of discussing what they are literately and literally consuming. We learn Sales is not a complete monster, Crabb is still trying to pat it into a log, and Brendan can't find the setting for "remove mouth sounds caused by a walnut and blue cheese salad". • My Baby in Bed the final column of Sam de Brito • Life is Paler Without Sam de Brito's Spark by Luke McIlveen • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion • Ordinary Days by Leigh Sales • The Living Room by Diane Weipert via Love + Radio • Masters of Sex • Jackson and Lawler on Four Corners by Caro Meldrum-Hanna • Kitchen Cabinet season 5 • Please Like Me season 3 • Natural Born Keller by Amanda KellerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In which Crabb and Sales eat baked goods cooked in a chemically-cleaned oven and discover the joys of long biographies where not much actually happens. Plus the joys returning to the wrong theatre after interval. • Lemon butter slice from the Women's Weekly Best-Ever cookbook • Dick Adams on Kitchen Cabinet with Annabel Crabb • Calendar of Cakes by the Country Women's Association of South Australia • Special Delivery by Annabel Crabb • Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales • The Sense of Ending by Julian Barnes • On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields • Stoner by John Williams • The Ex-PM starring Shaun Micaleff • The Beautiful Lie starring Sarah Snook, Rodger Corser, Benedict Samuel and Sophie Lowe • Please Like Me starring Josh Thomas • The multiple biographies of Stephen Fry • My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard • The Whites by Richard Price • Anything Goes starring Caroline O'Connor • Australia's Second Chance by George MegalogenisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you walk out on plays? Movies? Crabb and Sales talk about the shows they couldn't sit through. Sales admits she doesn't like all musicals and Crabb admits that she likes at least one. Plus Crabb has all her suspicions confirmed that Sales is indeed a monster and won't participate in a standing ovation. • The Present by Chekhov performed by the Sydney Theatre Company • Hugo Weaving on 7.30 interviewed by Leigh Sales • Art of the Steal • The Maids by Jean Genet • Chicago the movie • Crash (1996) movie • The Girl with the Dogs by Anna Funder • The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov • Moulin Rouge • The final scene of The Sopranos (hard to say if it contains spoilers because everyone has a different theory about it) • Don't Stop Believing from Glee • Nurse Jackie • Californication • The X-Files • Diehard • The Librarians • Now Add Honey • Withnail & I • The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell • Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption smuggles dirt just like Brendan smuggles books • Of course, The Great Escape did it firstSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's been a leadership coup in Australia, meaning Crabb and Sales need a new safe word. Crabb has been papped with an Abbott staffer and unpacks an urban myth involving Malcolm Turnbull and a cat. Sales is mortified that the Prime Minister's Office already knows about her book recycling habits. • Battlelines by Tony Abbott • Annabel Crabb papped with Andrew Hirst via Crikey • Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull by Annabel Crabb • The night of the leadership spill on 7.30 • The Spycatcher Trial by Malcolm Turnbull • Julia Gillard interview on 7.30 by Leigh Sales • Scott Morrison interview on 2GB by Ray Hadley • Malcolm Turnbull interview on 2GB by Alan Jones • NSW Premiere Mike Baird live tweets The Bachelor on Twitter • George Brandis interview on 7.30 by Leigh Sales • Something Quite Peculiar by Steve KilbeySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales are very apologetic for taking so long to come up with a new episode and are delighted that in addition to fretting over the idea that maybe they're terrible mothers, colleagues, partners and friends, they can now feel guilty about disappointing listeners of the podcast.Speaking of guilt: Are you a chucker or a hoarder? Do you throw out books? Signed books? Books signed with a personal note by someone who would someday become Prime Minister? Oh dear. We have so much to talk about. • Miette: Recipes from San Francisco's Most Charming Pastry Shop by Meg Ray • The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood • The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb • The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll, annotated by Martin Gardner • Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R Hofstadter • Battlelines by Tony Abbott • The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton • The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton • Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery • Alias Grace by Margaret Attwood • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz • Les Miserables (the movie) • Matilda the Musical by Tim Minchin • When I Grow Up by Tim Minchin • White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin • Storm by Tim Minchin • Matilda by Roald Dahl • Tim Minchin on 7.30 interviewed by Leigh Sales • Leigh Sales and Tim Minchin sing the 7.30 promo • Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff • Homeland • Gideon Raff on 7.30 interviewed by Leigh Sales • One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville • Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson • Undisclosed podcast • Slate's Working: Stephen Colbert • The Cook and Baker by Cherie Bevan and Tass TauroaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Crabb and Sales visit the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. In keeping with tradition they are interrupted not once, but twice during the course of the episode. Despite every setback, they manage to talk about sex, death, art and books. Plus it suddenly dawns on our own odd couple that they are not as alike as they seem. In fact, they're almost polar opposites. • Archibald Prize 2015 • Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) • A Bone of Fact by David Walsh • Grace and Frankie via Netflix • The Odd Couple theme music via YouTube • Heartburn by Nora Ephron • Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman • All the President's Men starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman • You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again by Julia Phillips • Palace of Treason by Jason Matthews • The Fourth Revolution by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge • Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews • Burger Rings via Wikipedia • How Very Un McDonalds via Campaign Brief • Marmite Ad (NSFW) you either love it or you hate it • A Letter to My Children by Christopher Pyne • Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama • Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy • Nancy Mitford books • The Money Men by Chris Bowen • One Life by Kate Grenville • Should Have Known Better by Sufjan Stevens from the album Carrie and Lowell • True Myth: A Conversation with Sufjan Stevens via Pitchfork • Walker definition via Urban DictionarySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Crabb and Sales are going by nom de plumes - but who is Earl J McNabb and who is Tabitha Whispersword? Whispersword is refusing to read the new Harper Lee novel while McNabb reveals she may well have spent time behind bars if not for a noted barrister turned author. And what recipe ideas are dividing our loveable bunglers? • Priest hole • Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee • Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood • Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart • 100 Notable Books of 2014 via The New York Times • Charlie Anderson's General Theory of Lying by Richard McHugh • A Time to Run by J M Peace • Cops and Novels -The J M Peace blog • Cosmo Cosmolino by Helen Garner • Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi • Australian Women's Weekly: The Best-Ever Collection • How Kale Became Cool via MissEWardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The women discuss fashion, with Crabb describing her look as "50s frocks" while Sales' self-confessed style is "I Can't be Arsed". They review the new Pixar film "Inside Out", admitting it didn't make them cry as much as "Bambi" or "The Littlest Hobo". And Crabb is stunned - not in a good way either - by Sales' misogynistic taste in music, revealed in a guest host stint on Double J. • Mandarin and choc-chip cornflake biscuits. Just use this recipe but beat in the zest of two mandarins when you're creaming the butter and sugar. And banish the sultanas in favour of 1/2 cup dark choc chips. • Sticky gingerbread cake by Nigella Lawson • Gingernut and apricot no-bake slice by Maggie Beer • The Country Show Cookbook by The Agricultural Societies Council • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi • Community: Salad recipes by the Arthur Street Kitchen • Grace: A Memoir by Grace Coddington • Jean Paul Gaultier interview by Leigh Sales • Amy Poehler interview by Annabel Crabb • Guy Pearce interview by Leigh Sales • Inside Out starring Amy Poehler • Cinderella (2015) starring Cate Blanchett • Toy Story starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen • Up starring Edward Asner • Bambi • Ring of Bright Water by Bill Travers • Old Yeller • The Littlest Hobo • Jennie by Paul Gallico • Annabel Crabb on Double J with Myf Warhurst • All About That Bass by Meghan Trainor • Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke • Breakfast Time (Blurred Lines parody) by David Campbell and Sonia Kruger • Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye • Royals by Lorde • Leigh Sales admits she will probably never read Dickens via Chat10Looks3 • The Outdoor Type by The Lemonheads • Them Crooked Vultures by Them Crooked Vultures • The Trek that Nearly (Sort of) Killed Me by Brigid DelaneySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales are in Canberra getting their glam on for the Mid-Winter Ball. Even in a hotel bathroom, these bunglers still manage to crack each other (and us) up. Stay tuned for television and book recommendations.Plus: What does it take to get Crabb's hair straightened? And what does Salesy's husband Phil (aka "Brendan") think of the podcast so far? • Leigh Sales on Home Delivery with Julia Zemiro • Mad Men final series • The Americans starring Keri Russell • Keri Russell's short hair scandall • Veep starring Julia-Louis Dreyfus and Hugh Laurie • Hugh Laurie interview with Leigh Sales • John McCain's life expectancy via The Lancet • The Killing Season via ABC • Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks by Leigh Sales • Wentworth (the Prisoner remake) • Sir Henry Parkes: An Australian colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins • The Secret River by Kate Grenville • The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare WrightSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb hates showtunes and Sales hates birds, so why not spend the episode talking about both? Join them in the piano room (aka the yoga room) while they talk about the difference between popular and literary writing. Plus, Crabb and Sales read their favourite mean-spirited iTunes reviews. • Caroline O'Connor interview by Leigh Sales via 7.30 • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty • The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion • I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes • Peas and Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig • Lucky Us by Amy Bloom • Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart • Xinran's columns via The Guardian • Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran • H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald • Helen Macdonald interview with Richard Fidler • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George • The books of Gerald Durrell • Lace by Shirley Conran • Leila Jeffries Photography • Russian Trolls via The New York Times Magazine • The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha GessenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this live recording from the Sydney Writers' Festival, Crabb and Sales take a wander through their reading lives in sixty minutes, somehow managing to squeeze in mention of 42 books, four interviews, two television clips and two magazine articles. • Clade by James Bradley • Lucky Us by Amy Bloom • The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy • Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande • Buzz Aldrin interview with Leigh Sales on 7.30 • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt • The Secret History by Donna Tartt • The Fiddler in the Subway by Gene Weingarten • Barack Obama: The Story by David Marannis • Ulysses by James Joyce • Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb • Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie • Rabbit, Run by John Updike • The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov • The Spare Room by Helen Garner • This House of Grief by Helen Garner • The First Stone by Helen Garner • The Insults of Age by Helen Garner via The Monthly • This Old Man by Roger Angell via The New Yorker • Dick and Dora • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte • My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin • Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene • The Chalet School by Elinor Brent-Dyer • The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton • Anne of Green Gables by L M Montgomery • Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell • The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum • I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm • Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss • The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis • My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown • Matt Damon interview with Leigh Sales via 7.30 • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen • Jonathan Franzen interview with Leigh Sales via 7.30 • David Bowie on Extras • Kate Winslett on Extras • Boris Johnson interview with Annabel Crabb • 72 Virgins by Boris Johnson • The Iliad by Homer • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee • H is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales record this limited-edition podcast live from the Sydney Writers' Festival. Our loveable bunglers write letters to each other, explaining why their friendship is over. Featuring passive-aggressive baking, fairy wrens and show tunes (of course). • Women of Letters founded by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire • Pulp Fiction watch scene featuring Christopher Walken • Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim featuring Christopher Walken • The Shawshank Redemption (spoilers) sceneSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's budget week and everyone is under (and broadcasting in) the weather. But federal politics is quickly pushed aside once Sales announces that this week: nice guys do NOT finish last. Plus, who would you rather fly with: Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer? • Carrie Bickmore's Gold Logie Speech dedicated to her late husband Greg • Hilary Clinton interview with Hamish and Andy • Buzz Aldrin interview on 7.30 • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe • Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer • Spandau Ballet, but you might not like the origin of the name • The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty • Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty • The Hypnotist's Love Story by Liane Moriarty • Friday Night Lights starring Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler • Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus • House of Cards starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright • Inside the Northern Territory News via the Sydney Morning HeraldSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales desperately hunt for a quiet room to record this week's podcast and end up in a breast-feeding room. They talk about what makes a great true-crime book and the challenges of writing someone's real-life story. • Chef directed by Jon Favreau • The Trip starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon • Fame Opening Titles via YouTube • Women Having a Terrible Time at Parties in Western Art History via The Toast • Five Drops of Blood - Murder in the Cat Protection Society by Paul Wilson and Dianne McInnes • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote • The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer • This House of Grief by Helen Garner • Orchid Fever by Susan Orlean from the New Yorker archives • The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean • Damages starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne • Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry • Photographer Russell James's long battle to help his mentally ill and drug-addicted daughter by Anthony Deceglie • Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Useful by Deborah Oswald • One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville • The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey SteingartenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales review the first episode of the final season of Mad Men and discover that Don Draper has a unique solution for removing red wine stains from carpet. • The Children Act by Ian McEwan • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi • Mix and Bake by Belinda Jeffrey • Mr Sheen ad via YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb reveals her top "why didn't I think of that?" moments, and Sales tells us what she really thinks of Jeremy Clarkson. Plus things take a turn for the creepy with Richard III, Clive James, Roman Polanski and Dominic West.It's Chat 10 Looks 3, but now with added microphones! • Jean-Claude Van Damme does the splits • So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson • Airmail: Women of Letters featuring Tim Minchin, edited by Marieke Hardy • Inside the Commons a BBC documentary by Michael Cockerell • How to Outrun the Paparazzi by Jeremy Clarkson • The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan • Don't You Know Who I Am? Insider Diaries of Fame, Power and Naked Ambition by Piers Morgan • Betty Churcher's final interview by Leigh Sales on 7.30 • Reality TV series based on the fabulous adventures of Richard III's bones by Annabel Crabb • Four Weddings and a Funeral review by Martin Amis via The New Yorker • Clive James interviews Roman Polanski via YouTube • Clive James by Trent Dalton via The Australian • The Affair • Olive KitteridgeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb is writing a cookbook and Sales is more than happy to drop by and ruin the food styling. Have a listen. It's better than eating a raw onion. • Solar by Ian McEwan • Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan • Tony Abbott eats a second onion via ABC Online • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi • Derek Zoolander and Anna Wintour via Rolling Stone • Thanks to Olivia King for designing our new logo • Stephen Colbert at senate committee hearing on immigrant labour • Party Tricks via TenPlay • Q and A hosted by Annabel Crabb • One Life: My Mother's Story by Kate Grenville • A Fortunate Life by A B Facey • Where the Bodies are Buried via the New Yorker • David Mitchell via The Saturday Paper • David Mitchell's Soap Box - I couldn't care less • The Surprising Failures of 12 Steps via The Atlantic • The Wisdom to Know the Difference via This American LifeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sales has locked Crabb in a room with a piano, which can only mean one thing: show tunes! The pair celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Sound of Music and detour their way through rotten reviews, ironic illnesses, faux feminists and dudes in drag. Think of it as a few of their favourite things. • Lady Gaga at the 2015 Oscars • Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin • Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer from Vanity Fair • Original review of The Sound of Music from The New York Times • Everyone Hated The Sound of Music from The Daily Beast • How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life by Jon Ronson • So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson • If You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS from This American Life • My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer from The New York Times • Unspoken Truths by Christopher Hitchens • Betty Churcher interview by Leigh Sales • Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay • Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout • RuPaul's Drag RaceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales don their finest trench coats and head off to see 50 Shades of Grey. Afterwards they delve into the topic of reading books you ordinarily wouldn't. It's all about man caves, aliens, vampires, Hitler and so much more. • Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer • Ascendance: Dave vs the Monsters by John Birmingham • The Young Lion by Blanche d'Alpuget • The Lion Rampant by Blanche d'Alpuget • New Yorker review of Fifty Shades of Grey by Anthony Lane • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz • The Mitford Girls by Mary S LovellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sales and Crabb make up for missing a couple of weeks by delivering a bumper Christmas episode. They talk about everything from baking, to books to bird watching. Find out what's on their summer reading list and what DVDs not to bring home to a mother of a new baby. • The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander • Rachel Allen Cookbooks • The Ketchup Conundrum by Malcolm Gladwell • Mad as Hell with Shaun Micaleff • The superb fairy-wren - which is our best guess of the visitor in the backyard • Masters of Sex • Please Like Me with Josh Thomas • The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson • Sony's Leaked Emails via Defamer • Gone Girl • Misery • The Comfort of Strangers • Die Hard • The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane • Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews • Stoner by John Williams • Far from the Tree by Andrew Soloman • Little Failure: A Memoir by Gary Shteyngart • Bill Granger's recipe for The Soup • The Presidents Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy • The Menzies Era by John Howard • My Story by Julia Gillard • The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell • A Fraction of the Whole by Steve ToltzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales start where they left off last week: Portuguese Tarts, but from there things take a turn to the dark side. How can one random, tragic event completely ruin your life? But it's not all bleak. Sales brings us home with Sting and show tunes. • The Art of the Tart via The Age • How to make the perfect hollandaise sauce via The Guardian • The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander • L'Ami Louis review by AA Gill • The Blight of the Bumble Bee • Knife Fight with Lee-Lin Chin • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler • The Real Life Lolita by Sarah Weinman • Got Your Back - Dennis Ross plays Diplomacy via This American Life • Sting Joins the Cast of His Struggling Broadway Musical via Time MagazineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Crabb and Sales take to the road in search of Portuguese tarts and along the way talk about the best books, documentaries and TV shows based around "insider" accounts. • Top of the Morning by Brian Stelter • Brekky Central by Adam Boland • The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon • The Staircase • Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss • The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss • The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm • What it Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer • Life by Keith Richards • Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor by Matthew Latimer • The Newsroom • VEEP • Startup podcast • Poor teeth from Aeon magazine • Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado • Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich • Shine a Light - The Rolling Stones as directed by Martin Scorcese • One Day by David Nicholls • Us by David Nicholls • Jaden and Willow Smith Interview from the New York Times blogSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Crabb and Sales talk about Broadway disasters, wicked wordplay and kitchen fires. They put the smackdown on their internet trolls, Sales talks with a mouthful of cake and Crabb refuses to relinquish the microphone. And how exactly does one jelly one's own breast milk? • Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi • Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller • Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens • Clive: The Story of Clive Palmer by Sean Parnell • The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb • Nancy Drew 53: The Sky Phantom by Carolyn Keene • Amnesia by Peter Carey • Annabel Crabb or NOFX • Obama meets Bartlett • Old masters at the top of their game • Being Bill Murray • Vera NabokovSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Crabb and Sales talk about their idols and what it's like to make a fool of yourself when you meet them. Plus, they reveal their secret shameful foods. Tinned smoked oysters, ambrosia salad or perhaps just a bucket of deep-fried chicken? • A Chorus Line • Lyrics to Chat 10 Looks 3 by Crabb and Sales • Mary Jo Fisher • Yotam Ottolenghi • Helen Garner • The House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov • The Child in Time by Ian McEwan • The Children Act by Ian McEwan • My Story by Julia Gillard • Diary of a Foreign Minister by Bob Carr • The Alan Clark Diaries by Alan Clark • A Bone of Fact by David Walsh • The Young Lion by Blanche d'Alpuget • Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham • SerialSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.