Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
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Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/accidental-celebrity.
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James Scott was rescued in 1992 after 43 days alone, without food, in the freezing Himalayan mountains. The medical student defied all expectations of what a human could endure, only to face media speculation about whether he’d staged a hoax.
Music credits:
Theme: Epic Adventure by BlueBirdSound
Waiting For The End Of The Quarantine by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6108-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-quarantine
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Dark Secrets (DECISION) by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/246-dark-secrets-decision-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaking News 5 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5973-breaking-news-5
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaking News 2 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5951-breaking-news-2
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rising Tide by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tide
Breaking News 1 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5950-breaking-news-1
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Breaking News 3 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5952-breaking-news-3
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Enter the Maze by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3712-enter-the-maze
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Universal by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4565-universal
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Walking Into Darkness - Myuu thedarkpiano.com
SFX
Hiking in a canyon by ciccarelli - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Walking on the snow by rivernile7 - Freesound.org
Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Karate Class by Digital Gold Pictures - Freesound.org
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/
Media credits:
Content supplied and/or licensed for use courtesy of Nine Entertainment Co (incl. The Footage Company Australia / Nine Network Australia), Australian Broadcasting Corporation Library Sales, News Corp Australia and Are Media Pty Limited.
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