Michelle Obama Reveals Style Insights: Top Audio Shows This Week
This Week's Highlight
IMO: Style Stories
This new spin-off from the former first lady's IMO podcast accompanies the launch of a visual tome exploring her wardrobe transformation. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. In the style of the woman herself, the show provides meaning in addition to its style, revealing important details about the challenges she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to occupy the White House.
Waiting Game
Exam outcomes. Public transport. Your wedding day. We all experience the complex sentiments that come with waiting. But what about awaiting an incarcerated partner? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between passing away and being revived? This contemplative show, narrator Katy Davis collects extraordinary stories of dealing with the unknown.
The Interventionist
This podcast from an established audio team maintains their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Journalist Dyan Neary speaks with parents whose minors were removed from their care after allegations of abuse were linked to a single medical professional, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.
Disclosure
Freedom of information requests may seem boring, but reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic turn them into a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered through these methods in the US feature getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to testify under oath that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.
EU Nations: Best Practices
A new miniseries positions member states against each other on accommodation, early education and narcotics laws to establish the top performer. The parenting segment analyzes different concerns such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the situation where renowned Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The best childcare system? It isn't from Scandinavia.
