The Former First Lady Reveals Outfit Stories: Best Podcasts This Week
Pick of the Week
IMO: Fashion Focus
This fresh installment from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the publication of a visual tome 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 Michelle personally, the show delivers substance together with its polish, uncovering significant insights about the challenges she encountered as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.
The Pause
Test results. The bus. Your marriage ceremony. We're familiar with the mixed emotions linked to anticipation. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis collects remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.
The Preventionist
This production from a major media investigative unit continues their tradition of thorough examinations into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary speaks with parents whose children were taken away after reports of harm were attributed to a single medical professional, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was appropriate.
Revelations
Freedom of information requests aren't the sexiest topic, but reporter Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic transform them into a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered through these methods in the US feature persuading the former president's aide to admit to a court that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.
The Europeans: Who Does It Best?
A new miniseries puts EU nations head to head on real estate, childcare and narcotics laws to determine the leading example. The childcare episode examines multiple topics including Iceland's feminist protest to the fact that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces preschool services if their parents have another baby. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.
