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Very Old Pretenders

Field	Value
show_name	Very Old Pretenders
format	Mockumentary
runtime	28 minutes
country	United Kingdom
language	English
home_station	BBC Radio 4
starring	David Haig
Rebecca Front
Jack Docherty
Gordon Kennedy
Moray Hunter
Morwenna Banks
Carl Gorham
Lucy Barter
Sinead Merron
Nicholas Burns
creator	Carl Gorham
writer	Carl Gorham
producer	Gordon Kennedy
first_aired	15 September 2011
last_aired	6 October 2011
num_series	1
num_episodes	4

Rebecca Front Jack Docherty Gordon Kennedy Moray Hunter Morwenna Banks Carl Gorham Lucy Barter Sinead Merron Nicholas Burns Very Old Pretenders is a comedy mockumentary on BBC Radio 4 which was first broadcast between 15 September and 6 October 2011.

Plot

A fictional anthropologist discover two Jacobite soldiers, preserved alive in a cave since 1745, and introduces them to modern life.

Production

Very Old Pretenders was written by Carl Gorham, known to British audiences for his earlier Gorham and Swift radio sitcom and the television series Stressed Eric. It was produced by Absolutely Productions.

Reception

Initial reviews (from advance copies sent to critics) were positive, Ron Hewit in the Radio Times calling it "terrific", and Gillian Reynolds in the Telegraph suggested it was very funny if, along with her, one likes "Scotsmen plus a bustling conjunction of the real with the surreal".

Episodes

References

"The Very Old Pretenders".
Hewit, Ron. [http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/mv75p/very-old-pretenders-the-patriots "Very Old Pretenders"], ''[[Radio Times]]'' Retrieved on 2011-09-16.
Reynolds , Gillian . [https://web.archive.org/web/20110617095713/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5603194/Todays-radio-highlights.html "Today's radio highlights"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph]]'' Retrieved on 2011-09-16.

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