The State We're In wins best documentary award

The State We're In has won a Gabriel award for best documentary. It won with 'Two Enemies, One Heart', which aired 10 September 2011 and was produced by Mignon Aylen.

It told the story of two combatants, one Iraqi and one Iranian, each of whom saved the other's life in separate events nearly twenty years apart and on the other side of the world.

The awards committee says that all "entrants go through a highly selective process of preliminary screening and… juries only present an award in a particular category when a level of excellence is achieved-in values, content, creativity, artistic quality, technical quality or impact."

It's been a great year for The State We're In, expanding into New York City, the number one market in US public radio, parts of English-speaking Africa and securing a new partner in Cairo. It was also the most downloaded program produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide in 2011.

Listen to 'Two Enemies, One Heart' here.

'Two Enemies, One Heart' took seven months to produce. Read 'Making Two Enemies, One Heart'.