Michelle Obama Reveals Outfit Stories: Best Audio Shows This Week

Top Selection

IMO: The Look

This new spin-off from Michelle Obama's audio series aligns with the launch of a coffee-table book chronicling her fashion evolution. It's a highly polished affair (in true Obama fashion), with appearances by including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Similar to the host, the show provides meaning alongside its style, disclosing significant insights about the challenges she faced as the pioneering Black female to reside in the White House.

The Pause

Exam outcomes. The bus. Your wedding day. We all experience the complex sentiments linked to expectation. Now imagine awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the interval from clinical death and revival? This reflective podcast, host Katy Davis collects incredible narratives of dealing with the unknown.

The Preventionist

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

This podcast from a renowned production house upholds their legacy of hard-hitting investigations into controversial topics. Host Dyan Neary meets families whose minors were removed from their care after claims of mistreatment were attributed to the same doctor, and questions whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was the right one.

Revelations

Freedom of information requests may seem boring, but investigative 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 comprise persuading the former president's aide to admit to a court that the leader's social media posts aren't factual.

European Comparison: Top Performers

A new miniseries positions member states head to head on real estate, childcare and narcotics laws to determine the top performer. The childcare episode analyzes different concerns such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces preschool services if their parents have another baby. The finest provider of childcare? It isn't from Scandinavia.

Shelley English
Shelley English

A passionate traveler and writer with over a decade of experience documenting unique cultural encounters worldwide.