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Christopher "Chris" Langham (born 14 April 1949) is an English writer, actor, comedian and convicted criminal. He is the actor who voices the Narrator in the Storyworld segments.

He is known for playing the cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It, and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer to television on BBC Two, where Mallard is almost entirely an unseen character. He subsequently created several spoof adverts in the same vein. He also played similar unseen interviewers in an episode of the television series Happy Families and in the film The Big Tease. He is also known for his roles in the TV series Not the Nine O'Clock NewsHelpKiss Me Kate, and as the gatehouse guard in Chelmsford 123. In 2006, he won BAFTA awards for The Thick of It and Help.

On August 2nd, 2007, Langham was arrested and pleaded guilty for having possessed child sexual abuse and was put on the offender's list and banned from working with children for 10 years.

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