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The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

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09/09/2007

BBC Two - The Painted Veil

A doctor forces his unfaithful wife to go with him to China to fight a cholera epidemic.

Romantic drama. A doctor (Edward Norton) forces his unfaithful wife (Naomi Watts) to go with him to a tiny Chinese village to fight a cholera epidemic.

China, 1925. A reserved young doctor falls for an attractive socialite. However, her motives for marrying him prove more pragmatic than passionate, and in Shanghai she takes a lover. As a result, the doctor volunteers to help in a remote village stricken with cholera, where the couple's relationship comes under even greater pressure. 

Emotional drama based on the novel by W Somerset Maugham.

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