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in cameos as patients, Alison Senior as a patient's wife, and Langham's real-life daughter Emily as a patient's precocious daughter. Two of the most frequent patients are Gary (the only role Whitehouse plays with no make-up), who initially uses his therapy sessions to escape from his wife; and Monty,
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The way Paul works is to try and come up with a phrase that suits a particular voice ... That's the grain of sand around which the pearl of a character forms. Once he's found that voice, he's volcanic – it all comes out of him in a stream of consciousness which I can't type fast enough to keep up
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DVD, but has so far remained unreleased in the UK, most likely as a result of Langham's conviction for possession of child pornography in 2007 and subsequent semi-retirement. The development of
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with. Then my rather less glamorous and exciting job would be to take that stuff and shape it, which was fine by me, as I'm kind of obsessed with structure.
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Peter Strong (Langham) and his therapy sessions with a variety of patients, almost all of whom are played by Whitehouse.
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character Pedro, who would appear in the proposed and ultimately unmade second series, became a focal point of
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Strong, the diffident therapist, has an obsession with his receptionist Rebecca (played by
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in 2005, Langham said, of his writing partnership with Whitehouse:
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