The Crane Bag Podcast

By Jay LeemingArts Performing Arts

The Crane Bag Podcast episodes

April 07 Story and Spirituality with Janardan Ghosh
An interview with the storyteller, teacher, and theater maker Janardan Ghosh by Jay Leeming.

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1 hr 8 min
March 24 The Craft of Storytelling, Part One: Approaching a Story
Approaching a story - story as storm, song, and animal - the story is not a tool - story as forest, story as traveler to be welcomed - the skills of the hunter - courting a story - our illusion of control - orality and literacy - story as dream - Jung's insights as they apply to story - stories approach us
1 hr 3 min
March 10 Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part Five
A reading and exploration of part five of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" by storyteller and poet Jay Leeming.

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26 min
February 23 The Iliad, Part Twelve: The Death of Hector
The Iliad brought to life without a script and without a net by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
1 hr 19 min
February 02 The Iliad, Part Eleven: The Shield of Achilles
Part eleven of the Iliad, as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

A complete archive of stories performed on this podcast can be found at the website below.

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48 min
January 13 Lao-Tzu: Poems #76 and #1 from "the Tao Te Ching"
"The hard and strong will fall, the soft and weak will overcome": two poems from the Tao Te Ching, read and then explored by Jay Leeming, poet and storyteller.

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19 min
December 29, 2025 A Reading of the Odyssey, Book One
Poet and Storyteller Jay Leeming reads and comments on book one of Homer's Odyssey.

Note: Unusually for this podcast this is not a storytelling performance but a reading, for those who wish to dive a little deeper into the Homeric version of this story which has inspired my own.

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53 min
December 16, 2025 On the Road in Greece and Cyprus
Notes from poet and storyteller Jay Leeming during his two-month storytelling journey through Greece and Cyprus in 2025.
35 min
December 09, 2025 Diarmuid and the Princess From Beneath the Sea
A story from the Irish epic of Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

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57 min
November 25, 2025 Rilke: "Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper"
An exploration of the poem "Sometimes a man stands up during supper" by Rainer Maria Rilke.

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28 min