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This Week's Highlight

IMO: The Look

This latest series from Michelle Obama's IMO podcast aligns with the launch of a hardcover volume exploring her style journey. The production is sleek (typical of the Obama brand), featuring guests including former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth and actress Jane Fonda. Similar to the woman herself, the show provides meaning alongside its style, revealing important details about the challenges she dealt with as the pioneering Black female to live in the White House.

On Hold

Medical reports. Your ride. Your wedding day. We all experience the conflicting feelings linked to waiting. But what about expecting a jailed romantic interest? A child delivered by a gestational carrier? Or the interval from passing away and being revived? In this thoughtful series, host Katy Davis listens to extraordinary stories of managing unpredictable situations.

The Preventionist

This production by a major media investigative unit upholds their reputation of hard-hitting investigations into debated issues. Host Dyan Neary meets caregivers whose minors were taken away after allegations of abuse were linked to a single medical professional, and questions whether a "better safe than sorry" approach was appropriate.

Disclosure

Public records inquiries aren't the sexiest topic, but investigative reporter Jason Leopold and legal expert Matt Topic turn them into an engaging show. 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 commander-in-chief's tweets aren't literal.

European Comparison: Top Performers

A new miniseries puts EU nations in competition on accommodation, early education and drug policy to determine the top performer. The childcare episode examines multiple topics from Iceland's women's strike to the situation where highly-praised Sweden nightmarishly limits childcare for toddlers if the family expands. The finest provider of childcare? It isn't from Scandinavia.