The Crane Bag Podcast

By Jay LeemingArts Performing Arts

The Crane Bag Podcast episodes

April 02, 2025 The Iliad, Part Four: Zeus' Wild Daughter
Achilles is born and narrowly misses his change at immortality; meanwhile a storm drives prince Paris across the sea and to the palace of a particularly wild and beautiful queen.

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59 min
March 18, 2025 Sharon Olds: "California Swimming Pool"
An exploration of the poem "California Swimming Pool," by Sharon Olds.

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24 min
March 06, 2025 Joel Christensen: Stories as Living Beings
An interview with Professor Joel Christensen about Homeric Epic and the possibility of regarding stories as living beings.

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50 min
February 24, 2025 Pablo Neruda: "Ode to My Socks"
The odes of Pablo Neruda explored by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming.

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25 min
February 18, 2025 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.

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48 min
January 28, 2025 The Iliad Part Two: The Judgement of Paris
The epic of the Iliad, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

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43 min
January 02, 2025 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.

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1 hr 4 min
October 31, 2024 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.

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26 min
October 30, 2024 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.

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1 hr 7 min
October 14, 2024 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.

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39 min