Ep 185 - This Is Not A Pod About Benedict Cumberbatch

Sales unsuccessfully attempts to brainwash her children to enjoy classical music while Crabb is doing some heavy duty reading ahead of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

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Ep 184 - 2002 Calls With a Spoiler Alert

Showing the madness that can descend on journalists four weeks into an election campaign, Sales is finally getting around to watching West Wing and Crabb is rewatching Veep.

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Ep 183 - Things Fell Apart

What do Shane Warne and Michelle Obama have in common? Absolutely nothing, meaning it's the perfect combination for a shambolic chat 10 discussion.

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Ep 182 - Did Anything Happen While We Were Away?

Crabb and Sales are BAAACCCKKK.... with apologies for the crappy service but also a selection of Very Good Reasons. Crabb deploys possibly the most emotionally aggressive plug for her new show in living history, Sales talks about why she quit 7.30 and the pair recommends a grab bag of theatre, TV, books and music. It's an extra long episode! Sales fuming of course.

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Ep 181 - Salesy’s Summer of Culture

Sales gets a turn to share what she’s been up to over summer

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Ep 180 - Crabb’s Summer of Culture

Crabb talks about her holiday reading and watching.

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Ep 179 - Bonus Summer Episode: Get Back

Sales finally fulfils two lifelong dreams: delivering an entire episode about the Beatles, and replacing Crabb with a handsome Hollywood film star.

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Ep 178 - The Best of 2021

Part 2 of the Canberra Live Show from December 2021.

Sales and Crabb do their annual Best Of Lists

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Ep 177 - Live From Canberra Pt 1
Ep 176 - Non-Fungible Scarf

Crabb and Sales have a nervous chuckle about an Adele interview bungle and discuss how to prepare for a celebrity encounter. They spend too long talking about Taylor Swift's red scarf, and Leigh stuns Annabel yet again by revealing she has never heard of a non-fungible token.

Audio heads-up: this remotely recorded episode sounds a bit... shall we say... tinny? And if you listen hard you'll hear Crabb stirring her tea.

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Ep 175 - Walk Like A Panther

Finally, Sales has seen the new Bond film. And of course her highlights include some obscure musical detail, the lavish shots of Daniel Craig's eye region and the specific panthery way he dismounts a motorcycle.

Note: as a nostalgic treat for Chatters, this episode features slightly dodgy sound quality 'cos it was recorded remotely.

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Ep 174 - We Are Lady Parts

Crabb and Sales dissect a New York Times article that everybody is talking about. Crabb is loving the work of a first-time novelist while Sales feels let down by one of her favourite comedians.

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Ep 173 - Listless In Seattle

A rip has emerged in the Sales Time Management Continuum; she's turned up to record the podcast without a list of topics! This gives Crabb an early headstart to yabber aimlessly about going to see Hamilton AGAIN and Helen Garner's new book which Crabb has read. The new Ottolenghi is reviewed, and Succession star Brian Cox has written a memoir full of celebrity human wreckage, principally his own.

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Ep 172 - Chat Another Day

Sales goes on an epic James Bond binge, including a rendition of the theme music, while Crabb gets her own back with a big clang: some one-on-one time with super-author Liane Moriarty.

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Bonus Episode - Love Your Bookshop

Bonus Episode - Love Your Bookshop

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Ep 171 - Rev Heads

Crabb is aghast at Sales’ latest sporting obsession. Meanwhile the pair has been binging nothing but American culture.

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Ep 170 - Couple Of Broken Down Hacks

The Newsreader causes Sales and Crabb to have flashbacks to their early newsroom careers (interspersed with Crabb's nightmares about being tortured in a wooden crate because she is STILL watching The Bureau, send help). Plus they've watched Hacks! And The White Lotus!

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Ep 169 – Heroes & Villains

Crabb is delighted, no seriously, she’s delighted, to discover that Sales has been binging sports documentaries, including further indulging her obsession with the Chicago Bulls.

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