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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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 blog

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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 Nabokov

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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
• Serial

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