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S8Who Do You Think You Are? Australia

Mon, Sep 05, 2016

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.

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S8.E1 ∙ Julia Morris

Mon, Sep 12, 2016

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.

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S8.E2 ∙ Peter Garrett

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

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.

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S8.E3 ∙ Delta Goodrem

Mon, Sep 26, 2016

Australian singer Delta Goodrem learns more about her connections, roots and family history.

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S8.E4 ∙ Mal Meninga

Mon, Oct 03, 2016

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.

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S8.E5 ∙ Rachel Griffiths

Mon, Oct 10, 2016

Rachel Griffiths' journey takes her back to the re-emergence of Judaism in 17th century England. She discovers her forebear was highly successful yet embroiled in the a very dark and murky chapter of history.

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S8.E6 ∙ Shane Jacobson

Mon, Oct 17, 2016

Shane's search for the truth behind his Viking roots is answered, and in a farmhouse he finds his extended Finnish family.

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S8.E7 ∙ Jane Turner

Mon, Oct 24, 2016

Jane will uncover the desire that drove her wealthy ancestor to endure incessant misfortune. Then uncovering her father's actions as a fighter pilot in the Korean War takes Jane inside the Demilitarised Zone on the border of North Korea.

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S8.E8 ∙ John Newcombe

Mon, Oct 31, 2016

We're all totally shocked when John traces his grandfather to the Pacific Islands and discovers he has befallen a gruesome end at the hand of the Kanaks.

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