The Former First Lady Reveals Fashion Secrets: Best Audio Shows of the Week
This Week's Highlight
IMO: The Look
This fresh installment from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast coincides with the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her style journey. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests including ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the podcast provides meaning together with its style, disclosing fascinating perspectives about the pressures she faced as the first Black woman to live in the White House.
Waiting Game
Medical reports. Public transport. Your marriage ceremony. We're familiar with the conflicting feelings that come with anticipation. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between death and resuscitation? This reflective podcast, presenter Katy Davis hears incredible narratives of managing unpredictable situations.
The Prevention Expert
This production by an established audio team continues their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary speaks with parents whose children were placed in foster care after reports of harm were linked to a single medical professional, and probes whether a preventive measure was the right one.
Revelations
Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic turn them into a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US include 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 positions member states against each other on real estate, early education and narcotics laws to establish the best. The parenting segment analyzes multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the situation where much-vaunted Sweden severely restricts daycare for young children if their parents have another baby. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.
