You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one.

I'm Sadata Sese, an assistant commissioner of podcasts for BBC Sounds.

I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects,

relationships, identity, comedy, even one that mixes poetry, music and inner city life.

So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature,

and the next looking at how a podcast connects with its audience.

And maybe that's you.

So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds.

Music So if you like this podcast, check out some others on BBC Sounds. During those four hours from 10pm to 2 a.m.

My predominant emotion, really, was to try to keep myself safe

and really not to anger the monster because I was afraid of what might happen.

If only this story could start somewhere else,

and not in the middle of the night in a hotel room in Italy,

with a slight young woman and a physically huge, professionally powerful older man.

But that's one of the devastating effects of sexual assault,

that it creates a new beginning.

I was constantly backing off,

really trying to get myself out of the situation

as calmly and pleasantly as I could

without riling him up.

This is Rowena Chu, then a 24-year-old assistant at a major film production company,

The Monster, was her boss, the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein,

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