Chat 10 Looks 3

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.