Here's a rowdy dream-vision involving a house thatched with feathers, pigs that never die and a sea-god for whom story is the fire that warms his house; it's the journey of King Cormac into the Otherworld as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

Storyteller Jay Leeming and playwright Geetha Reddy discuss her recent adaptation of the Mahabharata.By Jay Leeming

The Irish epic of Finn MacCool, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Irish epic of Finn MacCool brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

There's trouble out there, big nasty toothy trouble and this life isn't just sitting with bread and honey by a warm fire. That's the truth expressed in this age-old narrative of innocence becoming wisdom, a primal building-block of story explored by storyteller Jay Leeming and who knows if on the way we might also meet the Buddha on the road? www.J…

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

A live and unscripted riff on hunger, myth, and the origins of poetry by performance storyteller Jay Leeming, unedited and rowdy as an apple on a branch. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

The Odyssey as brought to life by performance storyteller and poet Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

Jay Leeming tells Part Six of the Odyssey.By Jay Leeming

Could some stories really be 100,000 years old? A meditation on oral memory, story, and the constellation of the Pleiades, complete with music (played on the dilruba of India) for our winter darkness. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

Jay Leeming interviews the Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden about the Odyssey, his path to storytelling, and much more.By Jay Leeming

The age of Kali begins, kingdoms are destroyed and Yudishtira and his brothers set out for the otherworld, all in this final episode of the Mahabharata as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

By Jay Leeming

By Jay Leeming

Truth and lies, elephants and chariots collide on the battlefied of Kurukshetra, where the vows and desires of every character create a pattern no one could have foreseen and the battle in the world is revealed to be also a battle within.By Jay Leeming

The epic which began with the theft of a cow continues as all the fruits of action grow ripe on the branches of what's possible, leading to a battle in which even a god can lose his way and the razor-sharp choices of one woman in her past life lead to the death of the Grandfather of us all.By Jay Leeming

The Kurus and the Pandavas hurtle towards a war which it seems cannot be stopped, though Krishna does everything in his power to prevent it in this episode of the Mahabharata as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

The epic of the Mahabharata brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming through the power of music and the spoken word.By Jay Leeming

Down we go, down the roots of this bright flower-loud world into the depths of the winter kingdom ruled by Hades himself. "The glacier knocks in the cupboard / the desert sighs in the bed / and the crack in the teacup opens / a lane to the land of the dead." So wrote the poet W.H. Auden, and by cracks and brokenness we learn who we are-- though the…

Princess Draupadi and the five sons of Pandu confront the limits of their powers in a wilderness alive with magical beings, rakshasas, and speaking trees in this episode of "The Mahabharata" as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com www.Patreon.com/StoryJLBy Jay Leeming

Performance storyteller Jay Leeming brings to life the Indian epic of the Mahabharata through music and the power of the spoken word. In this part of our story the Pandavas encounter powers greater than any they have encountered before; non-human powers who school them in humility and weakness. Along the way they meet the monkey god Hanuman, the sa…

Princess Draupadi and the five sons of Pandu leave their kingdom behind and begin their thirteen-year exile in the forest; the vast epic of the Mahabharata, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

By Jay Leeming

The story of Orpheus and Eurydice, brought into the here and now by storyteller, poet and musician Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

Who's that stepping out of the bonfire? It's Draupadi, the princess who will change the world permanently and forever; who will witness the end of the third age of time and will even get to laugh hysterically for a few brief and beautiful moments.By Jay Leeming

Darkness and fire and the tree at the center of all things: storyteller Jay Leeming brings the Norse creation myth to life through music, story, and the power of the spoken word.By Jay Leeming

By Jay Leeming

Deeper into the forest we go, tracking the story of the wizard-like teacher Drona to its source in water and in fire.By Jay Leeming

Why do the gods do what they do? What's up with all the weeping and washing in the Odyssey, and can baking five cakes in one day get us some answers? Poet Bethany Dixon and I sat down on a summer's day to explore the feminine characters of the Odyssey, and the result is a wide-ranging exploration of gender, the divine, and the good trouble of being…

A blind king, a visit to the king of the fishermen, and yet another hunting trip gone wrong: it's part two of the epic of the Mahabharata, as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

A plunge into the mythic cosmos of the Mahabharata, an epic story in which the destinies of gods and humans intertwine and the roll of a die decides the fate of an entire kingdom.By Jay Leeming

A king without a queen marries a river goddess who then does a few monstrous things; that's the news straight from the start of the Mahabharata, a beautiful Hindu epic in which gods and humans mingle in both lovely and destructive ways.

It's tough being a sage who lives forever, especially when the world crashes and burns and you're left crawling through an apocalyptic wasteland; but in that darkness there are still surprises to be found. A cosmic legend of murk, hope and mangoes from the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.…

Theater director Sam Buggeln talks with performance storyteller Jay Leeming about myth, theater, the supernatural, and bringing the Odyssey to the stage.By Jay Leeming

A story from the first branch of the Welsh Mabinogion, told and then explored by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

Part two of the Welsh story of "Branwen, Daughter of Llyr," brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

A raven king, a magical cauldron and a talking bird: the Welsh story of "Branwen, Daughter of Llyr" brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

The power of blind chance goes up against the king of death in this fairy tale brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

A journey into the fierce yet healing story of the Odyssey, first through storytelling by Jay Leeming and then through an extended interview with Joel Christensen of Brandeis University.By Jay Leeming

A fairy tale found in a box in an attic in Hamburg in 2012, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

The storyteller Laura Simms tells "The Pigeon's Bride" and explores the art of storytelling in an interview with Jay Leeming.By Jay Leeming

The Norse trickster god Loki steals the golden hair of Sif, the wife of Thor, and thereby releases the rowdy desires of all the gods for fabulous and magical tools.By Jay Leeming