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Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Sean Lay. From the outside, my guest today seemed to have a perfect life, all the trappings of a successful and highly lucrative career in the city of London, a wife and

young family at home. On the high-pressure trading floors of financial behemoths such as Goldman Sachs,

Credit Suisse and UBS, David Tate appeared fearless. Inside, he was in emotional turmoil. As a child,

he had suffered appalling sexual abuse that would have catastrophic consequences into his adult life.

After a breakdown that nearly cost him everything, including his life,

he's dedicated himself to increasing awareness of abuse against children.

He's climbed Everest five times to raise millions for charity.

Now a raw and unflinching movie has been made about his life.

Has David Tate found a way to deal with the pain of the past?

Well, he joins me now.

David Tate, welcome to Hard Talk.

Because I was one of those children, those are the words you wrote to colleagues at the end of a charity fundraising email.

And there certainly are a lot of grown-ups who were abused as children globally.

The estimate, I think, is one in five women, one in 13 men.

Why did you want to tell your story?

It was largely, I have to say, accidental.

I was looking around for a new vehicle to raise money for the charity.

I'd jumped out of planes, tried to race cars, but largely crashed them.

And then in 2003, I was sitting at my desk at Bluecrest Capital, and I looked up on the screens

above me, and the Chinese summited Everest on the 50th anniversary. And it looked so majestic

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