Jay Leeming

The Crane Bag Podcast

Arts EN ↓ 100 episodes

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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Jay Leeming

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The Iliad Part One: Prometheus, Paris, and the Goddess of Deep Water 02.01.2025 1:03:13

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 31.10.2024 25:33

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 30.10.2024 1:06:48

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 14.10.2024 38:04

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 19.09.2024 1:03:00

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 20.08.2024 52:04

Storyteller Jay Leeming and playwright Geetha Reddy discuss her recent adaptation of the Mahabharata.

Episode #117: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part Two 07.08.2024 43:28

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 07.08.2024 59:57

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" 02.05.2024 32:13

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

The Odyssey Part One: Feasting the Sea-God 02.05.2024 55:42

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

Songbox #1: Odysseus, Guslar and the Belly of the world 18.04.2024 44:24

A live and unscripted riff on hunger, myth, and the origins of poetry by performance storyteller Jay Leeming, unedited and rowdy as an apple on a branch. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Eleven: The Rooted Bed 01.03.2024 1:00:23

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Ten: Once I Went Hunting 01.03.2024 1:01:54

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Nine: Now You Must Be Someone Else 01.03.2024 58:10

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

Odyssey Part Seven: Blood for Ghosts 01.03.2024 55:28

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Five: My Name is Nobody 16.02.2024 1:00:20

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Four: Welcome, Stranger 16.02.2024 1:01:58

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Three: Some Say He is My Father 16.02.2024 45:38

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

The Odyssey Part Two: The Kingdom of Rust and Honey 16.02.2024 41:45

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www. JayLeeming.com

Odyssey Part Eight: A Song You Must Not Hear 15.02.2024 1:01:09

The Odyssey as brought to life by performance storyteller and poet Jay Leeming.

The Odyssey Part Six: With a Hawk Feather in Her Hair 15.02.2024 1:11:30

Jay Leeming tells Part Six of the Odyssey.

The Seven Sisters 15.12.2023 22:21

Could some stories really be 100,000 years old? A meditation on oral memory, story, and the constellation of the Pleiades, complete with music (played on the dilruba of India) for our winter darkness. www. JayLeeming.com

Storyteller Daniel Morden interviewed by Jay Leeming 27.09.2023 1:22:02

Jay Leeming interviews the Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden about the Odyssey , his path to storytelling, and much more.

The Mahabharata Part Sixteen: The Journey to the Otherworld 29.08.2023 1:13:52

The age of Kali begins, kingdoms are destroyed and Yudishtira and his brothers set out for the otherworld, all in this final episode of the Mahabharata as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

The Mahabharata Part Fifteen: Tranquility 22.08.2023 1:03:15

In the aftermath the river Ganges returns as the luminous, magical thread joining every part of this story, healing the survivors and joining the three worlds. Meanwhile Yudishtira wrestles with his doubts and seeks the wisdom of Bhisma, still clinging to life on the battlefield beneath the circling stars.