Hull
About Hull
Kingston upon Hull, or simply shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, 25 miles (40 km) inland from the North Sea. It is a tightly bounded city which excludes the majority of its suburbs; with a population of 275,401 (2024), it is the fourth-largest city in the Yorkshire and the Humber region. The built-up area has a population of 436,300.
On the show — 11 mentions total
There's a really cool hero called Carl Bushby from Hull. He decided in 1998 he was going to walk the world. He started in Chile, and the idea was to end up back in Hull — it was going to take him 10 years, so he should have been back in 2010. He's still walking.
from 609: No Such Thing As Aunt Bessie In A Red Citroën Picasso, 2025-11-13 at 00:52:41 · read transcript
Other times Hull came up
Then you have it in a breadcake or a bread bun or however you want to say that. You pack vinegar onto it till it's dripping and it's fantastic. That's so nice. It's a really traditional whole dish. It's traditionally made by the maidens of hull by hand. Did they roll it on their thighs? The Cuban cigars? Just wipe the oil off on your thighs. It's very hard to tell sometimes if you're in Hull or Havana.
No Such Thing As Aunt Bessie In A Red Citroën Picasso, 2025-11-13 · listen
Yeah. It's got a great website as well, I should say. It did crash three times. You ended up on BBC.com. Yeah. The boat itself had microphones on the Hull, part of the research capacity. It was listening for whales as it traveled. It also had a smart tongue. It had a tongue on the bottom. That sounds like someone's Tinder profile or... I got a smart tongue.
No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop, 2022-07-28 · listen
I think they sometimes don't do it at night because there's a really good video of someone drive. I think it's in Hull, a really good video of a truck which looks microscopic when you put 100 metres, like wind turbines might get up to 100 meters long. I think this one's 70 meter long turbine blade on it, sticking up like James says in the air, and then behind it, there's one guy walking in fluorescent gear with a hard hat on.
No Such Thing As A Venetian Barge, 2025-04-03 · listen
Yes, we have a prize to give away, yes. So the best fact that we found or that you guys sent in and the fact is, my dad, not my dad, the dad of the person who wrote in, my dad once held the world distance record for leapfrogging, two-person team. They managed nearly 17 miles from Hull to Wibnsey, East Yorkshire. Set in the early 80s, I think they were probably drunk.
No Such Thing As The Ancient Monty Python Dynasty, 2018-11-09 · listen
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