Michelle Obama Unveils Style Insights: Top Audio Shows of the Week
Pick of the Week
IMO: Style Stories
This fresh installment of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast accompanies the publication of a coffee-table book exploring her wardrobe transformation. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests such as style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Much like Michelle personally, the show delivers substance in addition to its polish, disclosing fascinating perspectives about the expectations she faced as the pioneering Black female to reside in the White House.
The Pause
Medical reports. Public transport. Your big day. We all experience the complex sentiments linked to anticipation. But what about expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, presenter Katy Davis collects incredible narratives of navigating such uncertainty.
The Prevention Expert
This series from a major media investigative unit continues their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Journalist Dyan Neary interviews parents whose children were placed in foster care after claims of mistreatment were made by a single medical professional, and examines whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was justified.
Revelations
Freedom of information requests aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic turn them into an engaging show. The stories they've unearthed via these requests 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.
The Europeans: Who Does It Best?
This limited series positions member states in competition on housing, early education and narcotics laws to identify the top performer. The family support installment analyzes various issues including Iceland's feminist protest to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden nightmarishly limits childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The finest provider of childcare? It's not Scandinavian.
