Leigh Sales

LAUGHTER And then while I'm just sort of putting my pants on in the bathroom, I can hear her humming, and she's humming, I touch myself.

LAUGHTER But she's humming it in the Lee Sales way, which is just the least erotic version.

Like this woman can make elevator music out of anything just by humming it.

And I'm like, I could hear it.

She was talking about her look, which, you know, has been her look for kind of many years now.

And she said they were asking, what's going on with your look? How did you come up with it? For anyone who doesn't know, she's got this kind of very dark, glossy, black, straight hair with a fringe that kind of sits like about here so you can barely see her eyes.

Lee Sales indicates her brow just below her brow, almost interfering with her vision.

LAUGHTER

We acknowledge them and their leaders, along with the traditional owners of whichever land you're on, listening to it right now.

Hello there, Leigh Sales.

Well, hello to you, Annabel Crabb.

Not to be shallow, but that is a very nice shade of lipstick you're wearing.

This is a very special episode of Australian Story.

Lee Sales is all over it.

We'll talk to her about it next.

Against the odds.

Australian Story.

Yep, a career that was more than just about cricket.

Lee Sales joins us on the show now.

Australian story tonight, unbeaten Usman Khawaja from 8pm on ABC.

Did you ever see the film Getting Square or Getting Square it was called? No, I don't think I've even heard of it.

Okay, so it's quite a famous Australian film, Sales, in 2003, I think, and it's like a crime film but a drama.

It's about crims getting out of prison and kind of... finding the consequences that await them there.

It starred Gary Sweet and David Wenham, who's this sort of hapless heroin uso, keeps getting caught and doing deals and then being...

We acknowledge them and their leaders, along with the traditional owners of whichever land you're on listening to it right now.

Lee Sales.

Annabel Crabb, I've been wanting to talk to you because, um, recently one of my favorite Australian women died, Blanche D'Alpuget.

Okay.

The historic decision to throw open the Berlin Wall, at least two million East Germans have crossed to the West.

he was known for his generosity towards his colleagues, including a young Lee Sales.

I remember starting in the Sydney newsroom as a 22-year-old, moving down from Brisbane.

And Richard, of course, by then was, you know, he was a real superstar of the news.

So he presented that for a few years in the 2010s.

Uh, ABC journalist Lee Sales paid tribute to him last night.

She said that when she started as a junior reporter, he "went out of his way to welcome me" and called him an "absolutely divine human being." [upbeat music] And Anna, there are lots of sporting situations where I wouldn't trade places with the athletes for any money.

I have no interest in sitting under a high ball while rugby league players sprint at me, for example.