The Crane Bag Podcast

Jan 28 2025 99 ep. 46 mins 34
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Myths and stories from around the world brought alive and singing into the here and now by storyteller, musician and poet Jay leeming.

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The Iliad Part Two: The Judgement of Paris

Jan 28 2025 42 mins  
The epic of the Iliad, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com

The Iliad Part One: Prometheus, Paris, and the Goddess of Deep Water

Jan 02 2025 63 mins  
Performance storyteller Jay Leeming brings the sprawling epic of the Iliad alive with all of its birds, thunder, and goddesses intact. www.JayLeeming.co

Episode #123: The Birth of Oisin

Oct 30 2024 25 mins  
Once again Finn MacCool stumbles into relationship with the Otherworld, in this story from the Irish Finn cycle brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #121: The Mermaid in the Mirror

Oct 29 2024 66 mins  
Do we live in a world of infinite possibilities, or of barriers and limits? A wizard, a blue snake, and a mermaid help us to explore this question in this story from deep within the mythic cosmos known as Stories from One Thousand and One Nights. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #120: Finn MacCool and the Spell of a Hundred Years

Oct 14 2024 38 mins  
Though these stories seem to focus on the exploits of Finn and his band of poetical warriors, the Goddess is always present in all her forms and liable to show up in the most unlikely of circumstances. In this episode Finn sets out into the wild but soon finds himself in a territory of weakness and forgetting unlike any he has stumbled into before. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #119: Finn MacCool and the Fomorians

Sep 19 2024 63 mins  
Here's a rowdy dream-vision involving a house thatched with feathers, pigs that never die and a sea-god for whom story is the fire that warms his house; it's the journey of King Cormac into the Otherworld as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #118: Talking About the Mahabharata With Geetha Reddy

Aug 20 2024 52 mins  
Storyteller Jay Leeming and playwright Geetha Reddy discuss her recent adaptation of the Mahabharata.

Episode #117: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part Two

Aug 07 2024 43 mins  
The Irish epic of Finn MacCool, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #116: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part One

Aug 07 2024 59 mins  
The Irish epic of Finn MacCool brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com

Episode #115: Girl Meets Wolf: Exploring "Red Riding Hood"

May 02 2024 32 mins  
There's trouble out there, big nasty toothy trouble and this life isn't just sitting with bread and honey by a warm fire. That's the truth expressed in this age-old narrative of innocence becoming wisdom, a primal building-block of story explored by storyteller Jay Leeming and who knows if on the way we might also meet the Buddha on the road? www.JayLeeming.com