The Folium Diary
The Folium Diary begins as the playful audio journal of Cherie Hazzard, a brilliant, elusive young woman documenting her “internship” with a mysterious project called the Folium. Through books, banter, flirtation, philosophy, and small-town drama, Cherie gradually reveals that the diary itself is part of a larger performance: an attempt to introduce a long-term social vision rooted in ecological wisdom, affectionate anarchy, and the nurturing of better humans. As the story unfolds, family secrets, doppelgängers, hidden rooms, and shifting narrators widen the world. By the end of season one, the Folium emerges as both idea and experiment: a strange, loving nudge toward a better civilization.
The Folium Diary
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Thank you for listening!
- Thanks Isabella, Samantha, and Stephen 🏆🏆🏆
- Thanks to the Pacific Northwest for inspiration 🍄🍄
- Thanks to Goldwave, Audacity, Buzzsprout, and Wikipedia 🌐
- Thanks to Maz Ghani for the Folium Leaf 🍃 and Daisy's daisies
- Synthetic voices by ElevenLabs 🤖
No AI was used to write this show, but we borrowed liberally from the Books of the Week. Thank you Pat, Cass, Rachel, Rosi, Mary, Eric, Edgar, Rob, Naomi, Octavia, Nick, Ray, and L.A. Meyer 🏴☠️
Oh yes, the sock give-away! 🤦🏻♀️
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