On which radio programme did the dreaded batter pudding hurler of Bexhill on sea appear
The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea is an episode from series five of the 1950s BBC radio comedy, The Goon Show, first broadcast on 12 October 1954. It was written by Spike Milligan, who chose Bexhill-on-Sea as the location because he had been stationed there in World War II. The episode is a noted example of the use of a belief world in drama, and has been described as humour that demands "visualisation where visualisation is patently unprofitable". One device used for comic effect is to disorientate the listener by mismatching sound effects
The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) ours", Neddie and Bloodnok are left adrift in a lifeboat. They eventually discover the hurler hiding in an oven on board the raft, but having no evidence other than a batter pudding, Seagoon will not let Bloodnok or himself eat it to avoid starvation. Greenslade then ends the show after introducing a coda "for those of you cretins who would like a happy ending": Seagoon, over a background of romantic music, proposes marriage. Bloodnok accepts. At times during the episode the plot is abandoned in favour of Milligan's associational comedy. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill-on-Sea) The Dreaded Batter-Pudding