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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

A story from the far north brought to life by Walton Stanley, followed by an exploration of the story and storytelling by Walton Stanley and Jay Leeming.