Michelle Obama Shares Outfit Stories: Best Podcasts of the Week
This Week's Highlight
IMO: The Look
This latest series from the former first lady's IMO podcast accompanies the launch of a coffee-table book documenting her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Similar to Michelle personally, the series provides meaning together with its glamour, revealing important details about the expectations she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.
On Hold
Exam outcomes. Public transport. Your marriage ceremony. We're familiar with the conflicting feelings linked to waiting. But what about awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the period spanning clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis collects incredible narratives of navigating such uncertainty.
The Preventionist
This series from an established audio team maintains their tradition of in-depth reporting into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary interviews families whose kids were taken away after allegations of abuse were linked to one physician, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was justified.
The Truth Unveiled
Freedom of information requests might sound dry, but journalist Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic transform them into an engaging show. The information they've obtained through these methods 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.
European Comparison: Top Performers
A new miniseries places European countries head to head on accommodation, parental support and substance regulations to establish the leading example. The parenting segment explores different concerns such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the fact that highly-praised Sweden severely restricts childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.
