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The Crane Bag Podcast
Myths and stories from around the world brought alive and singing into the here and now by storyteller, musician and poet Jay leeming.
Episodes
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The Iliad Part Two: The Judgement of Paris
The epic of the Iliad, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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The Iliad Part One: Prometheus, Paris, and the Goddess of Deep Water
Performance storyteller Jay Leeming brings the sprawling epic of the Iliad alive with all of its birds, thunder, and goddesses intact. www.JayLeeming.co
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Episode #123: The Birth of Oisin
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…
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Episode #121: The Mermaid in the Mirror
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…
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Episode #120: Finn MacCool and the Spell of a Hundred Years
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…
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Episode #119: Finn MacCool and the Fomorians
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…
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Episode #118: Talking About the Mahabharata With Geetha Reddy
Storyteller Jay Leeming and playwright Geetha Reddy discuss her recent adaptation of the Mahabharata.
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Episode #117: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part Two
The Irish epic of Finn MacCool, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Episode #116: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part One
The Irish epic of Finn MacCool brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Episode #115: Girl Meets Wolf: Exploring "Red Riding Hood"
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…
The Crane Bag PodcastThe Odyssey Part One: Feasting the Sea-God
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Songbox #1: Odysseus, Guslar and the Belly of the world
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…
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The Odyssey Part Eleven: The Rooted Bed
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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The Odyssey Part Ten: Once I Went Hunting
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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The Odyssey Part Nine: Now You Must Be Someone Else
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Odyssey Part Seven: Blood for Ghosts
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
The Crane Bag PodcastThe Odyssey Part Five: My Name is Nobody
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
The Crane Bag PodcastThe Odyssey Part Four: Welcome, Stranger
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
The Crane Bag PodcastThe Odyssey Part Three: Some Say He is My Father
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
The Crane Bag PodcastThe Odyssey Part Two: The Kingdom of Rust and Honey
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Odyssey Part Eight: A Song You Must Not Hear
The Odyssey as brought to life by performance storyteller and poet Jay Leeming.
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The Odyssey Part Six: With a Hawk Feather in Her Hair
Jay Leeming tells Part Six of the Odyssey.
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The Seven Sisters
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…
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Storyteller Daniel Morden interviewed by Jay Leeming
Jay Leeming interviews the Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden about the Odyssey, his path to storytelling, and much more.
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The Mahabharata Part Sixteen: The Journey to the Otherworld
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…
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The Mahabharata Part Fifteen: Tranquility
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…