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.

101 Stories Day 16: When the Teeth of the Sun First Bite the Day 06/23/2026

101 Stories Day 15: When I Was Not 06/22/2026

101 Stories Day 14: Three Out of Four Ain't Bad 06/21/2026

101 Stories Day 13: A Field Guide to Birds 06/20/2026

101 Stories Day 12: How My Sister Married a Bird 06/19/2026

101 Stories Day 11: Over Here in America 06/18/2026

101 Stories Day 10: Barber Cuts Hair 06/17/2026

101 Stories Day 9: Respecting the Zero 06/16/2026

101 Stories Day 8: She Who Makes Wine Beside the Sea of Death 06/15/2026

101 Stories Day 7: Coyote Loses His Eyes 06/14/2026

101 Stories Day 6: The Trial of Zeus 06/13/2026

101 Stories Day 5: Yams in a Bag 06/12/2026

101 Stories Day 4: The Prince Who Left the Palace 06/11/2026

101 Stories Day 3: What the Grain of Sand Had to Say 06/10/2026

101 Stories Day 2: You Wear This Town Like a Jacket 06/09/2026

101 Stories Day 1: Soup 06/08/2026

101 Stories in 101 Days: Introduction 06/08/2026

Tomas Transtromer: "After a Death" 06/02/2026

Hart Crane: "At Melville's Tomb" 05/19/2026

The Craft of Storytelling Part Two: Telling a Story 05/05/2026

Jay Leeming: "The Barber" 04/21/2026

Story and Spirituality with Janardan Ghosh 04/07/2026

The Craft of Storytelling, Part One: Approaching a Story 03/24/2026

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part Five 03/10/2026

The Iliad, Part Twelve: The Death of Hector 02/23/2026

The Iliad, Part Eleven: The Shield of Achilles 02/02/2026

Lao-Tzu: Poems #76 and #1 from "the Tao Te Ching" 01/13/2026

A Reading of the Odyssey, Book One 12/29/2025

On the Road in Greece and Cyprus 12/16/2025

Diarmuid and the Princess From Beneath the Sea 12/09/2025