Michelle Obama Unveils Outfit Stories: Must-Listen Audio Shows This Week

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IMO: The Look

This latest series of the former first lady's audio series aligns with the publication of a hardcover volume exploring her wardrobe transformation. The production is sleek (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests including style expert Elaine Welteroth and iconic performer Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the show delivers substance alongside its polish, revealing significant insights about the expectations she faced as the pioneering Black female to reside in the White House.

Waiting Game

Test results. The bus. Your wedding day. We all experience the mixed emotions associated with waiting. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the period spanning passing away and being revived? This reflective podcast, narrator Katy Davis hears remarkable accounts of managing unpredictable situations.

The Interventionist

Reporter the presenter
Investigative … Dyan Neary, host of The Preventionist podcast.

This series by an established audio team upholds their tradition of hard-hitting investigations into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary speaks with families whose kids were removed from their care after claims of mistreatment were made by one physician, and questions whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was justified.

The Truth Unveiled

Public records inquiries might sound dry, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic transform them into an engaging show. The stories they've unearthed via these requests in the US comprise persuading the former president's aide to testify under oath that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

EU Nations: Best Practices

This limited series puts EU nations against each other on housing, childcare and narcotics laws to establish the best. The childcare episode examines multiple topics such as Iceland's gender equality walkout to the reality that much-vaunted Sweden problematically reduces daycare for young children if a new sibling arrives. The finest provider of childcare? It's not Scandinavian.

Matthew Lynn
Matthew Lynn

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