Season 8
9 episodes
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Famous Australians unearth shocking family secrets, challenging their identities and redefining their legacies in unexpected ways.
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The program brings together the best moments of this award winning genealogical series combined with revealing insights on what it was like to take part in the show from Adam Hills, Magda Szubanski, Adam Goodes, Richard Roxburgh, Kerry O'Brien, Tina Arena, Maggie Beer and Vince Colosimo. The retrospective shines a light on Australia's cultural and historical past, and gives the viewer a real sense of how profound the journey has been for many of the Australians who have taken part.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Julia Morris finds her great grandfather in controversial Labor Premier J.T. Lang's intimate inner circle, and she investigates whether her grandfather was involved in the Irish Republican Army.
Peter Garrett discovers an ancestor at the forefront of social welfare in the colony. And Peter follows his grandmother to remote Dorre Island, where Indigenous Australians suspected of having venereal disease were taken by force.
Australian singer Delta Goodrem learns more about her connections, roots and family history.
Mal Meninga goes on a quest to discover if he's descended from an indentured labourer - brought from the Pacific Islands to work in the Queensland cane fields - in a culture replete with racism, kidnapping and slavery.
Well-known Australians play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past.