Chat 10 Looks 3
164 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 66 ratingsA peripatetic podcast in which Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb discuss what they're reading, watching, cooking, listening to or irrationally exhilarated by.
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Ep 14: Our Reading Lives
June 02, 2015 12:32 - 1 hourIn 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 ...
Ep 13: Why We Can No Longer Be Friends
May 26, 2015 12:25 - 16 minutesCrabb 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
Ep 12: The Ascendancy Of The Nice People
May 16, 2015 10:56 - 35 minutesIt'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 Ba...
Ep 11: Why Don't We Do It In The Electrical Cupboard
April 25, 2015 22:36 - 35 minutesCrabb 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 Wilso...
Ep 10: Shagpile
April 15, 2015 00:47 - 41 minutesCrabb 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
Ep 9: Immoderate Envy
April 03, 2015 23:28 - 37 minutesCrabb 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 ...
Ep 8: Peony Fluffer
March 21, 2015 20:26 - 38 minutesCrabb 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 ho...
Ep 7: Close Kimono
March 07, 2015 09:53 - 34 minutesSales 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 ...
Ep 6: Fifty Shades Of Giggling
February 17, 2015 22:39 - 33 minutesCrabb 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...
Ep 5: A Unicorn In Your Backyard
December 16, 2014 00:41 - 57 minutesSales 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 bac...
Ep 4: The Sting Enclosure On Planet Rockstar
November 27, 2014 02:42 - 37 minutesCrabb 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...
Ep 3: Eighty-eight Point Turn
November 19, 2014 07:31 - 36 minutesCrabb 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...
Ep 2: Imagine The Bananas
November 13, 2014 00:02 - 39 minutesIn 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 ...
Ep 1: Nobody Mentions Nabokov
November 03, 2014 11:18 - 36 minutesIn 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 I...