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Hear Throughline's Peabody Award-Winning Series On Afghanistan

The series was recognized for unapologetically challenging narratives we accept in the U.S.
Source: Peabody Awards

We are proud to announce that NPR's Throughline has received a Peabody Award for its three-part series, Afghanistan: The Center of the World.

The series aired in 2021, twenty years after 9/11, and just weeks after US troops withdrew from Afghanistan, and took a different approach, shifting the narrative to center Afghanistan and its people in this award-winning series.

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