Peabody Award Winners of NPR: Throughline's Ramtin Arablouei & Rund Abdelfatah

Faces Of NPR showcases the people behind NPR--from the voices you hear every day on the radio to the ones who work outside of the recording studio. You'll find out about what they do and what they're inspired by on the daily. This week, we feature Rund Abdelfatah & Ramtin Arablouei, hosts of Throughline.

How do you feel about winning a Peabody Award, and why do you think it was the Afghanistan series in particular that won?

RUND: We're incredibly honored. Initially we were obviously surprised and excited and proud. One of the things that makes this series in particular a rewarding series to win is that it was such a team effort, and every single person on the team was involved in making it. And it was the culmination of months of work from the team. There was so much thought and care put into getting the stories right, and trying to get at this topic and this really important moment [the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan] in a different way, because we knew everybody was going to be talking about it. But one of the things that we always try to do on the show, which I think we did very successfully with this series, is that we were able to provide something unexpected for people who were getting a constant stream of news about Afghanistan, especially at that time during the withdrawal and in the lead-up to the withdrawal. That was really the product of a lot of hard work and care and research, and it represents what we try to do every single week on the show. What makes it