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This Week's Highlight

IMO: The Look

This fresh installment from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast coincides with the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her wardrobe transformation. It's a highly polished affair (as expected from the Obamas), featuring guests including ex-Teen Vogue chief Elaine Welteroth and Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. Much like the woman herself, the series offers depth alongside its polish, revealing fascinating perspectives about the expectations she encountered as the inaugural African American first lady to reside in the White House.

Waiting Game

Medical reports. The bus. Your marriage ceremony. We all experience the complex sentiments linked to expectation. Now imagine awaiting an incarcerated partner? The arrival of a surrogate baby? Or the period spanning clinical death and revival? In this thoughtful series, presenter Katy Davis hears remarkable accounts of dealing with the unknown.

The Interventionist

This series by an established audio team upholds their reputation of in-depth reporting into contentious subjects. Presenter Dyan Neary speaks with families whose minors were taken away after allegations of abuse were made by one physician, and probes whether an overly cautious strategy was appropriate.

Revelations

Government document petitions might sound dry, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and First Amendment attorney Matt Topic make them an engaging show. The information they've obtained via these requests in the US comprise persuading the former president's aide to state in legal proceedings that the leader's social media posts aren't factual.

European Comparison: Top Performers

This limited series puts EU nations in competition on housing, childcare and narcotics laws to determine the top performer. The parenting segment analyzes multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the reality that renowned Sweden nightmarishly limits daycare for young children if the family expands. The best childcare system? It's not Scandinavian.