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) scene

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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 Herald

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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 Steingarten

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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 YouTube

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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 Kitteridge

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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 Life

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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 Race

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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 Lovell

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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 Toltz

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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 Magazine

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