🔗 Share this article

Pick of the Week

IMO: Fashion Focus

This fresh installment of Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the launch of a coffee-table book chronicling her fashion evolution. Everything is meticulously crafted (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. In the style of Michelle personally, the podcast offers depth alongside its glamour, disclosing fascinating perspectives about the pressures she dealt with as the first Black woman to reside in the White House.

On Hold

Test results. The bus. Your big day. Everyone knows the complex sentiments linked to anticipation. However, consider awaiting an incarcerated partner? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the time between clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, narrator Katy Davis listens to remarkable accounts of navigating such uncertainty.

The Interventionist

This podcast from a major media investigative unit maintains their reputation of in-depth reporting into controversial topics. Presenter Dyan Neary interviews families whose children were taken away after allegations of abuse were made by one physician, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was justified.

Disclosure

Freedom of information requests aren't the sexiest topic, but journalist Jason Leopold and constitutional lawyer Matt Topic make them a compelling series. The revelations they've discovered via these requests in the US feature persuading the former president's aide to state in legal proceedings that the president doesn't mean what he tweets.

The Europeans: Who Does It Best?

This special production places European countries in competition on accommodation, childcare and drug policy to identify the best. The family support installment examines various issues from Iceland's women's strike to the fact that renowned Sweden problematically reduces childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.