Michelle Obama Unveils Outfit Stories: Best Audio Shows of the Week
Top Selection
IMO: Fashion Focus
This new spin-off of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her fashion evolution. It's a highly polished affair (typical of the Obama brand), with appearances by including style expert Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. In the style of Michelle personally, the podcast delivers substance alongside its style, revealing significant insights about the challenges she encountered as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.
On Hold
Exam outcomes. Public transport. Your wedding day. We all experience the conflicting feelings associated with anticipation. But what about expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the interval from clinical death and revival? This reflective podcast, host Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.
The Interventionist
This series by a renowned production house continues their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into debated issues. Presenter Dyan Neary meets families whose children were placed in foster care after claims of mistreatment were made by one physician, and questions whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was the right one.
Disclosure
Government document petitions might sound dry, but reporter Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic turn them into a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US comprise getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.
EU Nations: Best Practices
This limited series places European countries head to head on real estate, early education and substance regulations to establish the best. The childcare episode examines multiple topics including Iceland's feminist protest to the fact that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if a new sibling arrives. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.
