Best Of: Amanda Knox / 'Adolescence' Co-Creator & Actor Stephen Graham

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🗓️ 5 April 2025

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Amanda Knox was convicted — and ultimately exonerated — for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Italy. Now in a new memoir, Knox explains why getting out of prison was not the end of her saga.

Also, we hear from British actor Stephen Graham. He stars in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence as the father of a 13-year-old boy arrested for murdering a girl from his school. He also co-created the series and talks about the ambitious style in which it was shot — in one long take.

Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Lucy Dacus and Jeffrey Lewis.

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0:22.9	From W.H.Y.Y.Y. In Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, Amanda Knox. She was convicted and ultimately exonerated for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kircher, while on a study abroad trip in Italy.
0:38.3	Now in a new memoir, Knox explains why getting out of prison was not the end of her saga.
0:44.3	Yes, they had gotten Amanda out of prison, but they hadn't actually saved Amanda.
0:50.3	Because the girl who I was, that person died in Italy.
0:59.0	Also, we hear from British actor Stephen Graham.
1:02.2	He stars in the Netflix miniseries Adolescence as the father of a 13-year-old boy arrested for murdering a girl from his school.
1:10.6	I'm going to ask you once, okay? No matter what child. year old boy arrested for murdering a girl from his school.
1:13.0	I'm going to ask you once, okay?
1:16.8	No matter what's happened, no matter what you've done or you haven't done,
1:18.5	I want you to tell me this rude.
1:20.5	Did you do it?
1:25.8	And Ken Tucker reviews new albums from Lucy Dacchus and Jeffrey Lewis.
1:29.4	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:37.2	Psychologist Dolly Chug studies the lengths we will go to protect the way we see ourselves.
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1:55.2	This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. And today my guest is Amanda Knox. American Amanda Knox entered an Italian courtroom.
2:03.5	Convicted of a horrid crime in a foreign land.
2:05.7	Sentenced to 26 years for killing a roommate.
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