Leadenhall Market

This guide to Leadenhall Market in London starts in December 1797, when thirty-four thousand geese arrive from Ostend for slaughter and one gander refuses to cooperate, having crossed the North Sea chasing a mate. You'll hear how the traders came to accept him as a fixture of the market rather than its stock, and what he was fed and where he slept over the decades that followed. The guide also reaches back further, to what stood beneath this ground in Roman times. Look down the painted archways as you listen, and picture the bird who chose this place over everywhere else.