'Don't anger the monster', part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein. Rowena thought that speaking up about her alleged sexual assault by Weinstein would end up with him in court. But instead she was pressured into signing an NDA so severe that she could tell no one, at times even fearing for her safety. Keeping this secret sent Rowena to a very dark place. But decades later the #MeToo movement set her free.

This episode contains references to suicide.

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Presenter: Jo Fidgen Producer: Rebecca Vincent

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	The explanation is the podcast from the BBC World Service
0:35.9	that goes beyond the spin,
0:38.5	exploring the important questions about long-running stories
0:42.4	and the latest global news,
0:45.1	an honest explanation of the events shaping our lives.
0:49.6	Search for the explanation, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:58.6	I knew that Harvey's power was unbound.
1:02.2	Zelda and I had talked about, in a rather paranoid fashion,
1:05.9	but I feel justified,
1:07.5	what happens if we're not here next week?
1:10.4	What happens if he makes us disappear or accidentally get run over by a bus?
1:20.1	Harvey was Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul.
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