Amanda Knox: Why I’ve turned my life into an Edinburgh comedy show - The Sunday Story
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Knox was at the centre of one of the most gruesome murders and sensationalised trials of the 21st century. Accused of killing her flatmate, she transformed into a global media obsession almost overnight. Now, nearly two decades later, she’s turning that experience into an Edinburgh Fringe comedy show. Is it brave, morally questionable, or both?
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| 0:00.0 | From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Sunday. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 0:11.1 | I think anyone who lived through 2007 in the Western world will know the name of Amanda Knox. |
| 0:26.2 | She was portrayed as the villain at the center of probably one of the most |
| 0:32.0 | sensational murder trials of the last half century. A 22-year-old American student, Amanda Knox, was found guilty in Italy of murdering her British roommate. |
| 0:42.3 | She was immediately sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison. |
| 0:46.3 | The judges and jurors had no doubt. |
| 0:48.3 | Knox and her boyfriend, Rafael Solicito, described as immature and probably high on pot, killed Kircher |
| 0:56.4 | in the heat of a sex game gone wrong. |
| 1:01.1 | For many years as the trial and then the appeal ran on, that's about four years in total. |
| 1:06.2 | She was top of the news with ever more salacious details spun around her by the Italian prosecutors, |
| 1:15.0 | aided and abetted by the world's press. |
| 1:17.8 | For Helen Rumbullo, features writer at the Times, |
| 1:21.1 | Amanda Knox's story was one that she'd followed for years, |
| 1:25.1 | and then she interviewed her. |
| 1:28.3 | It's quite surreal when you finally meet someone like that and speak to them normally, you know, person to person. |
| 1:36.3 | Attacked by the press, vilified by the public, and wrongfully convicted of murder. |
| 1:45.7 | Amanda Knox has explored the many injustices she faced in a book and a Netflix documentary. |
| 1:53.0 | But is she right to turn it into comedy? |
| 2:36.9 | Music The story today, Amanda Knox, what was she Helen, you've recently interviewed Amanda Knox. |
| 2:38.7 | What was she like? |
| 2:43.1 | When I spoke to her, you know, she was actually in Edinburgh and she is wearing this sort of granny-knitted jumper she picked up in a charity shop. |
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