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Secrets Beyond the Screen

How well does anyone know their family?

Anita Jacoby AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers. Now she uncovers one of the most extraordinary stories of all, long hidden within her own family.

The father Anita knew had fled persecution in Nazi Germany to settle in Australia and become a pioneer of the Australian communications industry. He was known and respected in the entertainment, political and business worlds.

But he also had a devastating secret life.

In her quest to establish the truth, Anita combines being a loving daughter with her investigative journalist skills, determined to find everything concealed from her family for more than seventy years. But by turning the camera on her father she’s forced to question everything about him – and what she thought she knew about herself.

And in discovering his secrets, she’s compelled to reveal her own.

This very Australian story is one of tragedy and rebirth, resilience and change. It’s about love, grief, and the sacrifices parents make for their children. It’s a story

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'Impossible to believe': Veteran TV producer Anita Jacoby unearths hidden family secrets

TV producer Anita Jacoby spent years travelling the world telling stories.

From uncovering the truth about tragedies such as the Childers Palace Hostel fire, to interviewing world leaders like Bill Clinton and even heading up an international media firm, she reached the top of the TV ladder.

But it's the remarkable tale hidden in the midst of her own family which she has dedicated the past nine years to uncovering.

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The former 60 Minutes producer, who worked across all of Australia's commercial TV networks and broke the glass ceiling as boss of the company behind shows such as I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, stumbled on a sliver of a clue that there might be more to the man she called her dad.

It was at a dinner party in 2013 that a friend asked her if she knew about her late father's "infamous" court case in the 1950s.

She had no idea what he was referring to.

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Anita Jacoby

Australian film and television producer


Anita Jacoby, AM is an Australian television producer and journalist.

Life

Jacoby was born in Sydney, Australia, the daughter of political refugees displaced through the Second World War. Her father was born in Heinrichswalde, Germany, and her mother, a White Russian, was born in Harbin, Manchuria.[1] Growing up, Jacoby aspired to a career in the creative industries, although she was expelled from Pymble Ladies' College at the beginning of Year 10 “for being a pretty adventurous and difficult 15-year-old determined to push the boundaries”.[2][citation needed] Before entering the television industry, she had a number of jobs in book publishing and the print industry. Her first job after leaving school was as a marketing trainee at Paul Hamlyn Publishing Company before becoming a trainee book editor working on Australia’s Heritage. She then studied economics at Sydney University before returning to Paul Hamlyn's as a book editor. After Hamlyn's Jacoby joined Australian Consolidat

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