‘Good morning, I’m battling a cold and locked in my house, but otherwise quite fine!’ says that familiar voice on the line from Sydney.
‘Ask her what it’s like to have every woman in Australia thinking they’re your best friend,’ my own best friend suggested to me in the lead up to the interview, because we are both ‘Chatters’. We listen faithfully to Chat 10 Looks 3, the ridiculously popular weekly podcast Crabb hosts with fellow ABC journalist Leigh Sales. They flit delightfully from talk about books, movies and recipes, to the ethics of journalism and the nature of fame. With a Facebook fanbase numbering more than 43,000, the podcast has spawned a series of sell-out live shows and multiple random acts of kindness, particularly but not exclusively among women.
