Michelle Obama Reveals Fashion Secrets: Best Audio Shows This Week
Top Selection
IMO: Style Stories
This latest series from the former first lady's IMO podcast accompanies the release of a hardcover volume exploring her wardrobe transformation. It's a highly polished affair (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests including ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. In the style of the host, the show provides meaning alongside its style, revealing important details about the expectations she encountered as the pioneering Black female to occupy the White House.
Waiting Game
Medical reports. Your ride. Your wedding day. We're familiar with the complex sentiments associated with expectation. Now imagine expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between death and resuscitation? In this thoughtful series, presenter Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of navigating such uncertainty.
The Preventionist
This podcast from a major media investigative unit maintains their reputation of thorough examinations into controversial topics. Presenter Dyan Neary interviews caregivers whose children were placed in foster care after claims of mistreatment were attributed to a single medical professional, and questions whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.
The Truth Unveiled
Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic make them an engaging show. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US feature obtaining confirmation from Trump's assistant to admit to a court that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.
European Comparison: Top Performers
This special production places European countries against each other on housing, childcare and substance regulations to identify the leading example. The childcare episode explores various issues including Iceland's feminist protest to the reality that highly-praised Sweden severely restricts childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The top-ranked support service? It isn't from Scandinavia.
