Children’s television show Bodger And Badger is to return for a one-off special in opposition to the badger cull.
The show aired on BBC throughout the 1990s and focused on the capers of mashed potato-loving Badger.
Now show creator Andy Cunningham has made a YouTube version of the show where Badger unwittingly gets involved in the Somerset badger cull.
It has been filmed in conjunction with wildlife charity Care For The Wild.
Andy said: ‘For a long time Badger and I didn’t think the cull would really happen. The idea of people roaming around at night shooting at, and whatever they say, very likely wounding badgers, just seemed too barbaric to be true.
‘But when we heard this cull was really going to go ahead, Badger and I thought we ought to do something, because the case for culling just doesn’t add up.’
Some 5,000 badgers are set to be killed in two pilot culls in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset. Culling has been licensed over a six-week period in the six months from June 1.
After Andy contacted Care For The Wild, part of the Team Badger coalition fighting the cull, the charity came up with the idea for a new Bodger And Badger special.
Andy said: “The idea is that while Badger and I are having a holiday in Somerset, Badger gets an invitation from the British Government to take part in a local all-night shooting adventure, which we assume must mean paintballing.
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