Hi, I'm Allison Sandy from The Lady Vanishes. We have a big year coming up.

For those who haven't heard, an inquest into Marion Barta's disappearance has finally been set down.

For two weeks in June, we'll be hearing evidence about Marion's last

known movements and hopefully getting the answers her daughter Sally craves and deserves.

In the meantime I'd like to introduce accidental celebrity, a new

podcast available now about ordinary people who were thrust into the spotlight after a traumatic

event that became big news in Australia and internationally.

Lindy Chamberlain Creighton, Stuart Diver and Todd Russell are among the household names who now speak frankly about their media experiences

with journalist Fiona Reynolds.

A young mother sets up camp with her family.

A ski instructor drifts off to sleep beside his wife.

A minor clocks on for a night shift underground.

These ordinary Australians were about to face extraordinary events.

A full scale search would be devastatingly traumatic and highly newsworthy.

A wall of mud and water buried two ski lodges shortly.

A rockfall has been reported at the Beaconsfield mine.

Not one anticipated danger and disaster, expected ongoing media and public attention,

or imagined becoming an accidental celebrity.

Lindy Chamberlain Creighton, James Scott, Stuart Diver, Bruce and Denise Morcombe, Todd Russell, Rosie

Batty, once anonymous individuals who suddenly found themselves household names and familiar faces across Australia, even internationally.

I really go anywhere without being recognized and often when I think I've not recognized

and you'll be in a store or something you think oh nobody knows being here and

...