| 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 |
| Producer: | Gordon Kennedy |
| First Aired: | 15 September 2011 |
| Last Aired: | 6 October 2011 |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 4 |
Very Old Pretenders is a comedy mockumentary on BBC Radio 4 which was first broadcast between 15 September and 6 October 2011.
A fictional anthropologist discover two Jacobite soldiers, preserved alive in a cave since 1745, and introduces them to modern life.
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.[1]
Initial reviews (from advance copies sent to critics) were positive, Ron Hewit in the Radio Times calling it "terrific",[2] 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".[3]
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