The Iliad, Part Six: Achilles Among the Dancing Girls
Release Date: 05/27/2025
The Craft of Storytelling, Part One: Approaching a Story
The Crane Bag Podcast
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
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Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part Five
The Crane Bag Podcast
A reading and exploration of part five of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" by storyteller and poet Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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The Iliad, Part Twelve: The Death of Hector
The Crane Bag Podcast
The Iliad brought to life without a script and without a net by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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The Iliad, Part Eleven: The Shield of Achilles
The Crane Bag Podcast
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. www.JayLeeming.com
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Lao-Tzu: Poems #76 and #1 from "the Tao Te Ching"
The Crane Bag Podcast
"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. www.JayLeeming.com
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A Reading of the Odyssey, Book One
The Crane Bag Podcast
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. www.JayLeeming.com
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On the Road in Greece and Cyprus
The Crane Bag Podcast
Notes from poet and storyteller Jay Leeming during his two-month storytelling journey through Greece and Cyprus in 2025.
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Diarmuid and the Princess From Beneath the Sea
The Crane Bag Podcast
A story from the Irish epic of Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
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Rilke: "Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper"
The Crane Bag Podcast
An exploration of the poem "Sometimes a man stands up during supper" by Rainer Maria Rilke. www.JayLeeming.com
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Iliad Deep Dive
The Crane Bag Podcast
A deep dive into the craft of storytelling with performance storyteller Jay Leeming, exploring the creation of the opening scenes of his version of the Iliad.
info_outlineBefore 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