By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent
A former BBC employee has said she felt "unprotected" in the face of sexual harassment while working at the corporation.
She was giving evidence at the trial of Dave Lee Travis who, she alleges, grabbed her bottom while they recorded a show in a BBC studio.
The woman said the incident happened in the early 1980s.
She told the court: "I was really taken aback at that moment and that is why I remembered it really well."
The woman said she just tried to get on with her job and that any complaints she could have made "would have fallen on deaf ears".
She added: "They were celebrities and I was just a worker on the floor ... and I didn't see what I could do at the time.
"I felt unprotected if I am honest with you."
Working with an overwhelmingly male workforce led to "severe sexual harassment while I was there - it was verbal and coercive", she said.
Much of the harassment she ignored, but the alleged incident with DLT "crossed a physical boundary", she explained.
"I was working with men rigging and de-rigging and that takes a lot of close working."
But, she said, "this was something totally different".
A cameraman who worked on the same programmes as the woman also gave evidence in which he said he remembered his female colleague as "quite young, shy and easily embarrassed".
Dave Lee Travis denies 13 charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault.
The trial continues.
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