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Jay Leeming
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The Crane Bag Podcast
Oisin in the Land of Tir Na Nog
The epic of the Irish hero Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) comes to a close in this story brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-07-22
1h 00
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Emily Dickinson: "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
An exploration of Emily Dickinson's poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" by poet, storyteller and musician Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-07-15
23 min
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James Wright: "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium"
An exploration of James Wright's poem "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium" by poet, storyteller, and musician Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-07-08
19 min
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The Iliad, Part Six: Achilles Among the Dancing Girls
Before you go to war, it's probably best to spend a year living as a dancing girl on the island of Skyros. That's the wisdom which this beautiful story brings to us, just in time for us to put on our own dancing shoes and sing our way into the deepening wilderness of this epic brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-05-27
54 min
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Steve Scafidi Interview: "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail"
An interview with the poet Steve Scafidi, who reads his poem "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail" and discusses laughter, oblivion, religion, high school, and poetry with host Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-04-15
31 min
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Pablo Neruda: "Ode to My Socks"
The odes of Pablo Neruda explored by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-02-24
24 min
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The Iliad Part Three: Paris, the Sea-Dragon, and the Prophecies of Cassandra
The epic of the Iliad brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2025-02-18
47 min
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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
2025-01-28
42 min
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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
2025-01-02
1h 03
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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 Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-10-31
25 min
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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 the journey of King Cormac into the Otherworld as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-09-20
1h 03
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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.
2024-08-20
52 min
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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
2024-08-07
43 min
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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
2024-08-07
59 min
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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 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
2024-05-02
32 min
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The Odyssey Part One: Feasting the Sea-God
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-05-02
55 min
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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. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-04-18
44 min
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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
2024-03-01
1h 01
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The Odyssey Part Eleven: The Rooted Bed
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-03-01
1h 00
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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
2024-03-01
58 min
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Odyssey Part Seven: Blood for Ghosts
The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-03-01
55 min
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The Odyssey Part Five: My Name is Nobody
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-02-16
1h 00
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The Odyssey Part Four: Welcome, Stranger
The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2024-02-16
1h 01
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The 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
2024-02-16
45 min
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The 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
2024-02-16
41 min
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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.
2024-02-15
1h 01
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The Odyssey Part Six: With a Hawk Feather in Her Hair
Jay Leeming tells Part Six of the Odyssey.
2024-02-15
1h 11
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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.
2023-09-28
1h 22
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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 by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2023-08-29
1h 13
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The Mahabharata Part Eleven: Krishna's Last Efforts
The Kurus and the Pandavas hurtle towards a war which it seems cannot be stopped, though Krishna does everything in his power to prevent it in this episode of the Mahabharata as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2023-03-22
1h 12
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The Mahabharata Part Ten: In the Court of King Virata
The epic of the Mahabharata brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming through the power of music and the spoken word.
2023-03-17
1h 10
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The Mahabharata Part Nine: Draupadi and the Jambul Tree
Princess Draupadi and the five sons of Pandu confront the limits of their powers in a wilderness alive with magical beings, rakshasas, and speaking trees in this episode of "The Mahabharata" as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com www.Patreon.com/StoryJL
2023-03-13
1h 00
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The Mahabharata Part Eight: The Search for Weapons
Performance storyteller Jay Leeming brings to life the Indian epic of the Mahabharata through music and the power of the spoken word. In this part of our story the Pandavas encounter powers greater than any they have encountered before; non-human powers who school them in humility and weakness. Along the way they meet the monkey god Hanuman, the sage Parashurama and the ageless seer Markandeya who gives them a glimpse of the end of the world. www.JayLeeming.com www.Patreon.com/StoryJL
2023-03-05
1h 07
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Episode 84: The Mahabharata Part Seven: Into the Forest
Princess Draupadi and the five sons of Pandu leave their kingdom behind and begin their thirteen-year exile in the forest; the vast epic of the Mahabharata, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-11-25
1h 07
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Episode 82: Mahabharata Part Five: Draupadi's Laughter
2022-11-14
51 min
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Orpheus and Eurydice
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice, brought into the here and now by storyteller, poet and musician Jay Leeming.
2022-11-10
30 min
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Episode 81: The Mahabharata Part Four: The Birth of Draupadi
Who's that stepping out of the bonfire? It's Draupadi, the princess who will change the world permanently and forever; who will witness the end of the third age of time and will even get to laugh hysterically for a few brief and beautiful moments.
2022-10-17
42 min
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The Norse Creation Myth
Darkness and fire and the tree at the center of all things: storyteller Jay Leeming brings the Norse creation myth to life through music, story, and the power of the spoken word.
2022-10-12
1h 04
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Episode 83: Mahabharata Part Six: A Game of Dice
2022-10-04
1h 01
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Episode 80: The Mahabharata Part Three: Drona
Deeper into the forest we go, tracking the story of the wizard-like teacher Drona to its source in water and in fire.
2022-10-01
1h 02
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Exploring the Odyssey #2 with Bethany Dixon
Why do the gods do what they do? What's up with all the weeping and washing in the Odyssey, and can baking five cakes in one day get us some answers? Poet Bethany Dixon and I sat down on a summer's day to explore the feminine characters of the Odyssey, and the result is a wide-ranging exploration of gender, the divine, and the good trouble of being alive.
2022-09-29
47 min
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Episode 79: The Mahabharata Part Two: The Birth of the Pandavas
A blind king, a visit to the king of the fishermen, and yet another hunting trip gone wrong: it's part two of the epic of the Mahabharata, as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-09-15
42 min
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Episode 78: The Mahabharata Part One: Origins
A plunge into the mythic cosmos of the Mahabharata, an epic story in which the destinies of gods and humans intertwine and the roll of a die decides the fate of an entire kingdom.
2022-09-10
42 min
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Episode 77: The Birth of Bhisma
A king without a queen marries a river goddess who then does a few monstrous things; that's the news straight from the start of the Mahabharata, a beautiful Hindu epic in which gods and humans mingle in both lovely and destructive ways.
2022-08-19
48 min
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Episode 76: Markandeya Walks the World
It's tough being a sage who lives forever, especially when the world crashes and burns and you're left crawling through an apocalyptic wasteland; but in that darkness there are still surprises to be found. A cosmic legend of murk, hope and mangoes from the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-07-21
28 min
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Exploring the Odyssey #1 with Sam Buggeln
Theater director Sam Buggeln talks with performance storyteller Jay Leeming about myth, theater, the supernatural, and bringing the Odyssey to the stage.
2022-04-26
35 min
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Episode 75: Arawn, Lord of Annwvyn
A story from the first branch of the Welsh Mabinogion, told and then explored by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-04-20
42 min
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Episode 74: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr (Part Two)
Part two of the Welsh story of "Branwen, Daughter of Llyr," brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-03-06
46 min
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Episode 74: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr (Part One)
A raven king, a magical cauldron and a talking bird: the Welsh story of "Branwen, Daughter of Llyr" brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-03-06
40 min
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Episode 73: Into the Underworld with the Luckiest Boy Alive
The power of blind chance goes up against the king of death in this fairy tale brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2022-01-29
1h 08
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Episode 72: Exploring the Odyssey with Joel Christensen
A journey into the fierce yet healing story of the Odyssey, first through storytelling by Jay Leeming and then through an extended interview with Joel Christensen of Brandeis University.
2022-01-27
48 min
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The Mermaid and the Falcon Prince
A fairy tale found in a box in an attic in Hamburg in 2012, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.
2021-12-06
1h 20
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Opening to Story with Laura Simms
The storyteller Laura Simms tells "The Pigeon's Bride" and explores the art of storytelling in an interview with Jay Leeming.
2021-11-10
1h 01
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The Theft of Sif's Hair
The Norse trickster god Loki steals the golden hair of Sif, the wife of Thor, and thereby releases the rowdy desires of all the gods for fabulous and magical tools.
2021-09-26
1h 07
House of Legends: World Myths & Legends
Episode 67: The Birth of Athena with Jay Leeming
Our guest this week is Jay Leeming, a performance storyteller whose poetic way of bringing traditional stories alive has captivated audiences in theaters, schools, libraries and National Parks. He is the creator of the Crane Bag Podcast, the author of two books of poetry and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Recordings and more information about his work can be found at www.JayLeeming.com.Story begins at 36mins; use the chapter mark if you want to go straight there.Note: we replaced the audio of the live telling...
2021-09-14
1h 03
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Exploring Story with Csenge Zalka
2021-08-19
1h 03
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Episode 67: Naqqali Storytelling with Morshed Saghi and Arash Ali Farhadipour
An exploration of the Naqqali storytelling tradition of Iran, with Morshed Saghi and Arash Ali Farhadipour.
2021-07-15
29 min
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Tag Team Firebird
Four storytellers tell the Russian tale of the Firebird: a live, improvised, cross-Atlantic performance recorded in March of 2021 by Lara McClure, Walton Stanley, Catherine Heinemeyer and Jay Leeming. An exploration of the story by the storytellers follows.
2021-06-23
50 min
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Miguel Rivera and the Poetry of Humberto Ak'Abal
An interview with healer, translator and ceremony-maker Miguel Rivera on the poetry of Humberto Ak'Abal and our relation to the dreaming earth, preceded by the Seneca story "The Storytelling Stone."
2021-06-17
1h 08
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Episode #64: Interview with Clare Murphy
A conversation between the Irish storyteller Clare Murphy and Jay Leeming in which the big rowdy questions of story and earth and the wide sky are danced with until the music of our questions itself disappears into the whispering understory of what we forgot we knew.
2021-05-12
1h 13
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The Firebird
Bang! The red feather of desire is right in front of you on the forest path; your talking horse tells you to steer clear, but do you pick it up all the same? Enter the world of Russian earth-wisdom through "The Firebird," an ancient but contemporary story brought to life by storyteller Jay Leeming.
2021-04-28
1h 12
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Episode 61: "The Woman of the Sea" told by Regi Carpenter
"The Woman of the Sea" told by Regi Carpenter, followed by an interview in which she and host Jay Leeming explore that story as well as her own journey to storytelling.
2021-04-02
53 min
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The Stories We Live Inside
2021-03-26
06 min
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Episode 60: Odysseus in the Swineherd's Hut
Come into the swineherd's hut where who you are is determined by the story you tell, where Odysseus disguised as a beggar is welcomed by his loyal swineherd into the story of things-as-they-are.
2021-03-09
57 min
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The Power of Dreams with Peter Fortunato
In this episode we explore the power of dreams, first through a story from the One Thousand and One Nights and then through an interview with the poet, author and healer Peter Fortunato. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of dreamwork, poetry, and our relations to the earth.
2021-03-05
1h 11
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Freya and the Building of the Wall of Asgard
The Norse myth of the building of the Wall of Asgard brought to life by storyteller Jay Leeming, with a discussion of matriarchy, Seidr-magic and the fate of the gods.
2021-03-01
48 min
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Orpheus, Midas and the Goat-Man in the Garden
With Dionysus as our god we wander in the steps of a song-man fresh from the bush of ghosts, lurching perfectly through the story of Pygmalion to find ourselves in the rose garden of a king about to be granted the most disastrous blessing he could ever be foolish enough to ask for.
2021-02-16
54 min