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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Rosie Batty let the media into her life when her ex-partner killed their 11-year-old son Luke in 2014. She chose to turn a personal tragedy into a catalyst for change, learning to play the game to galvanise support for a national campaign against family violence.
Music credits:
Theme: Epic Adventure by BlueBirdSound
Long Note Two by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3994-long-note-two
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Breaking News 5 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5973-breaking-news-5
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Don’t Die on Me - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
Countdown - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
Troublemaker Theme - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
What Could Have Been - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
Countdown - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
Outsider - Myuu - thedarkpiano.com
Breaking News 3 by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5952-breaking-news-3
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Watching The World by Philip Rice
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6824-watching-the-world
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Hopes And Dreams by chilledmusic
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7059-hopes-and-dreams
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Beginning Of Conflict by Rafael Krux
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5288-beginning-of-conflict-
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Here And Now by Rafael Krux
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5658-here-and-now-
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Half Mystery by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5026-half-mystery
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Heroes In The Sky by Rafael Krux
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5356-heroes-in-the-sky-
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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 and News Corp Australia.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/accidental-celebrity.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/accidental-celebrity.
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