Amanda Knox: Is our obsession with true crime unhealthy?
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In a special series for the Sunday Times, writer Rosie Kinchen examines what's behind our true crime obsession. Kinchen makes contact with Amanda Knox - someone affected by this - and finds out Knox recently campaigned for the release of a German national - who Knox believes was wrongfully convicted of murder in the Unites States in 1990, in a story that has echoes of her own.
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Guests:
Rosie Kinchen, features writer at the Sunday Times.
Amanda Knox, journalist and podcaster.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:28.0 | Partner of choice. True crime. You love it, I love it. From podcast to video stream we tucked over the wickedness, wince pleasurably at the bloody details, theorise as to what really happened, and speculate on what punishments would be appropriate. Everyone loves it, except of course the people caught up in it. But do we ever think about them? People like Amanda Knox. |
| 1:03.0 | I was guilty of losing interest in her story and never reaching its conclusion, |
| 1:08.0 | which is that she was treated pretty obballingly actually the details that have come out subsequently. |
| 1:12.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the time. ballingly actually the details that have come out subsequently. |
| 1:12.6 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm David Aronovich. |
| 1:17.8 | Today, does our obsession with true crime do real damage. |
| 1:25.0 | I've always been interested in murder mysteries. |
| 1:30.0 | My mother is a huge fan. |
| 1:31.0 | She's to cut out newspaper articles of cases I grew up with |
| 1:36.0 | that around me a lot at home we always used to watch Inspector Morse together on |
| 1:40.1 | a Sunday night for example true crime Crime was there in the background. |
| 1:44.0 | That's Rosie Kinchen, a feature writer at the Sunday Times. |
| 1:48.0 | She's always been a fan of the crime drama genre. |
| 1:51.0 | But since Rosie was little, public tastes have moved on. True crime is no longer in |
| 1:56.7 | the background. Now it's very much front and center. There are over 2,500 true crime podcasts currently available, while on our screens, Netflix, |
| 2:07.0 | HBO and Amazon vie with each other to buy up the most lubricious tales. |
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