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Shrink Rap

Shrink Rap -  Chris Langham Meets Dr Pamela Connolly

9:30pm Wednesday, 06 Jan 2010  Documentary   CC M 

Chris Langham is a BAFTA award-winning British actor, writer and comedian. He is most famous for playing MP Hugh Abbot in the British sitcom The Thick of It and presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us.

On 2 August 2007, Langham was found guilty of downloading indecent images of children, but found not guilty of six counts of indecent assault. He was sentenced to ten months in prison. On appeal, he was released after serving three-and-a-half months. This interview was filmed only a few days after Langham was released from prison.

He tells Pamela about his rollercoaster life – his alcohol and drug abuse, and admits he was a compulsive liar, and puts it all down to an abusive experience at the age of eight.

Having been a victim then, he maintains he had never been able to get things fully back on track since. He talks movingly about how he tried to get a gram of coke on credit because his wife had just lost their new-born baby; and about his friends who stood by him during his trial.

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