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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