# The Painted Veil

Heard 2012. 1 episodes.

The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham First published in 1925 to a storm of protest, Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil is a haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual awakening. Kitty (Sarah Smart) has married for the wrong reasons. Living with her husband, Walter (Nicholas Farrell), in Hong Kong, she's in love with another man. When Walter discovers her infidelity he, in an act of vengeance, poses a terrible ultimatum. The cast also includes James Nickerson and Chris Li. The Painted Veil is dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. Producer/Pauline Harris for the BBC

## Sets

- The Painted Veil (Listeners' uploads): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/the-painted-veil-sommerset-maugham

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Sommerset Maugham](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/painted-veil/b86e74a769ae) (1 h 08 min): https://archive.org/download/the-painted-veil-sommerset-maugham/The%20Painted%20Veil%20-%20Sommerset%20Maugham.mp3

Uploaded to the Internet Archive by the person named, outside its radio collections.

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