Anita Jacoby with Kay McGrath on Secrets Beyond the Screen

Duration: 60 minutes

Anita Jacoby is a leading advocate for women in media and leadership. 
Renowned as one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers, Anita has produced some of the nation’s most credible programs, including Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, The Gruen Transfer, 60 Minutes, Sunday, Elders and Hungry Beast. 

Anita’s fearless journalistic spirit and gift for storytelling has seen her explore the lives of presidents, rock stars, royalty, and broadcasting giants from Sir David Attenborough to Crown Princess Mary, Bill Clinton, Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda and Elton John.

She has also reported on some of the nation’s most significant news stories including the Ivan Milat case and the Childers Backpacker fire.

But it was a throw-away comment at a dinner party one night that saw Anita take on her biggest project yet. From that night on, her world was turned on its head as she investigated an extraordinary tale hidden so deep, it took her nine years to uncover the truth about her own father Phillip Jacoby – an international man of mystery. A tale she tells in her intensely personal memoir Secrets Beyond the Screen.

Anita chairs the ABC Advisory Council, co-chairs Women in Media, is a Board Member of Chief Executive Women (CEW), the UK Duke of Edinburgh International Award, Documentary Australia and an Associate Member of the Australian Communications & Media Authority.

Listen to fellow television veteran and award-winning journalist and newsreader
Kay McGrath delve deep into conversation with Anita about the art of storytelling, the people they’ve met on the road, navigating the complex landscape for women in media and how to dig deep, finding vulnerability when writing a family memoir.