Genre Mockumentary Country United Kingdom Home station BBC Radio 4 | Running time 28 minutes Language(s) English | |
Starring David Haig
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.
Contents
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".
References
Very Old Pretenders Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA