The Former First Lady Reveals Style Insights: Best Podcasts of the Week

Pick of the Week

IMO: Fashion Focus

This fresh installment of the former first lady's audio series accompanies the release of a coffee-table book exploring her fashion evolution. It's a highly polished affair (in true Obama fashion), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Much like the woman herself, the podcast provides meaning in addition to its glamour, revealing important details about the expectations she encountered as the first Black woman to occupy the White House.

The Pause

Medical reports. Public transport. Your big day. Everyone knows the conflicting feelings that come with anticipation. But what about expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the period spanning clinical death and revival? This contemplative show, presenter Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of navigating such uncertainty.

The Interventionist

Reporter the presenter
Journalist Dyan Neary, the voice behind The Preventionist.

This production by an established audio team continues their legacy of thorough examinations into contentious subjects. Journalist Dyan Neary interviews parents whose children were taken away after reports of harm were linked to a single medical professional, and probes whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was the right one.

Disclosure

Government document petitions may seem boring, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic transform them into an engaging show. The revelations they've discovered via these requests in the US include getting Donald Trump's chief of staff to admit to a court that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This limited series places European countries head to head on housing, childcare and substance regulations to establish the best. The childcare episode analyzes multiple topics including Iceland's feminist protest to the fact that renowned Sweden severely restricts daycare for young children if their parents have another baby. The finest provider of childcare? Surprisingly, it's not Nordic.

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