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