Frankfurt
About Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, usually shortened to Frankfurt, is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 778,589 inhabitants as of 2025 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake Main, the city forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach am Main; its urban area has a population of over 2.7 million. Frankfurt is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Home to the European Central Bank, the city serves as one of the four institutional seats of the European Union. Frankfurt is classified by the GaWC as an Alpha-rated world city.
On the show — 10 mentions total
She was worried that the train toilet would be dirty, so she'd covered the seat with her newspaper. It was backwards writing from the Frankfurter Zeitung — it turned out to be backwards writing on her bum, which German military intelligence put her in prison for.
from No Such Thing As A Honey Badger On Toast, 2025-01-23 at 00:50:56 · read transcript
Other times Frankfurt came up
Interesting about insect discovery Yeah It's another of these things Kind of related to your fact Alice About what we knew when And the misconceptions So there's a very cool early entomologist Her name was Maria Sibilla Merrienne She was born in Frankfurt in 1647 and she's the woman who absolutely nailed the evidence that butterflies used to be caterpillars and vice versa.
No Such Thing As Pudsey's Passport, 2026-01-01 · listen
The echo in this chamber lasts 112 seconds. You're kidding. Wow. Oh my God. That's so cool. We played a place the other night. It was this hall in Frankfurt in Germany. The delay in there was seven seconds long. Because it was just so cavernous. Wow. Even when you get people in there. I mean, it's such a battle for us to dial in the sound and everything to fight that.
No Such Thing As A Zillion And One, 2016-02-12 · listen
It's quite interesting. There's a German scientist who was called Eduard Ruppel. He traveled around a lot sending samples and animals and specimens back to Frankfurt, which is where he was based. Various things are named after him.
No Such Thing As The God of Snooze Buttons, 2026-04-09 · listen
He was not, he wasn't a soldier, he was a Polish born, I think he was a farmer, he lived in South Africa, but he was fluent in English. If you were a pilot or a crew and you were caught, you would go to this little town near Frankfurt and you'll be put up in reasonably nice digs. They'd just talked to you for a couple of weeks.
485: No Such Thing As Ballet On A Staircase, 2023-06-30 · listen
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