Michelle Obama Shares Outfit Stories: Best Audio Shows of the Week

This Week's Highlight

IMO: Fashion Focus

This latest series from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast accompanies the publication of a coffee-table book exploring her style journey. The production is sleek (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests such as style expert Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the series delivers substance alongside its style, disclosing important details about the expectations she faced as the inaugural African American first lady to reside in the White House.

The Pause

Medical reports. Public transport. Your big day. We all experience the complex sentiments that come with expectation. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the interval from death and resuscitation? This reflective podcast, host Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of dealing with the unknown.

The Preventionist

This podcast from a major media investigative unit upholds their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Host Dyan Neary interviews families whose minors were taken away after claims of mistreatment were linked to the same doctor, and questions whether a preventive measure was the right one.

Disclosure

Government document petitions aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic transform them into a lively listen. 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.

The Europeans: Who Does It Best?

A new miniseries positions member states in competition on housing, childcare and narcotics laws to identify the leading example. The parenting segment explores various issues including Iceland's feminist protest to the situation where much-vaunted Sweden nightmarishly limits childcare for toddlers if their parents have another baby. The finest provider of childcare? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.