The Crane Bag Podcast

Jay Leeming
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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.

  1. OCT 31

    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

    26 min

  2. OCT 30

    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 story from deep within the mythic cosmos known as Stories from One Thousand and One Nights.   www.JayLeeming.com

    1h 7m

  3. OCT 14

    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 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

    38 min

  4. SEP 19

    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

    1h 3m

  5. AUG 20

    Episode #118: Talking About the Mahabharata With Geetha Reddy

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

    52 min

  6. AUG 7

    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

    43 min

  7. AUG 7

    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

    1 hr

  8. MAY 2

    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

    32 min
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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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