The Former First Lady Reveals Style Insights: Best Podcasts This Week
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IMO: Style Stories
This latest series of Michelle Obama's audio series coincides with the launch of a coffee-table book exploring her fashion evolution. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Much like the host, the podcast provides meaning in addition to its glamour, uncovering important details about the expectations she dealt with as the inaugural African American first lady to live in the White House.
Waiting Game
Test results. Your ride. Your marriage ceremony. We're familiar with the conflicting feelings linked to anticipation. But what about expecting a jailed romantic interest? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the interval from passing away and being revived? This reflective podcast, presenter Katy Davis hears remarkable accounts of navigating such uncertainty.
The Interventionist
This production from an established audio team continues their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary meets parents whose children were taken away after allegations of abuse were linked to a single medical professional, and examines whether an overly cautious strategy was the right one.
The Truth Unveiled
Freedom of information requests might sound dry, but reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic turn them into a lively listen. The revelations they've discovered by using them in the US comprise getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to admit to a court that the commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.
EU Nations: Best Practices
A new miniseries positions member states against each other on housing, childcare and narcotics laws to identify the leading example. The family support installment analyzes different concerns from Iceland's women's strike to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces preschool services if the family expands. The top-ranked support service? It's not Scandinavian.
