Season One

Explore The Obit Project

A story-driven podcast about the lives of real Montanans after they die, co-hosted by old friends and colleagues Jad Abumrad (founder of Radiolab and creator of Dolly Parton’s America and 2025’s Fela Kuti: Fear No Man) and University of Montana professor and journalist Jule Banville (An Absurd Result). This 12-episode production of the Montana Media Lab at the UM School of Journalism started with a class of students learning about the long tradition of obituary writing and ended with them and other professionals creating a new form that explores universal truths, legacies and reckoning with the memories of those we love.