Jennifer O'Connell

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2,353 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

Jennifer O'Connell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Women's Podcast · The rise of 'pervert glasses' / Making sense of Matrescence · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

But the piece that she writes isn't really about the content of the show.

It's more about who has the right to tell the story.

But 40,000 people at least have signed the petition and don't believe that she has the right to tell the story.

And Meredith Kircher's sister, Stephanie, has also come out and said that it normalises and trivialises violence against women, which I think, I don't think you could say that anything that Amanda Knox has done to date in her career normalises or trivialises violence against women.

But Rachel makes the point, and I thought this was like a really interesting way of looking at it.

You know, one is that

Like these stories are told all the time.

They're taken from women by kind of true crime podcasts and the like, and they're repackaged

repurposed.

And nobody ever has a problem with people who do that.

And there's a massive genre.

Yeah.

And I think she's, anytime I've heard her speak, she's really, you know, she's really respectful of the family.

And I suppose that then, the second criticism of it was, well, you know, if she wants to tell her own story, a comedy festival is not the place to do it.

But actually, the argument that it's too dark for Edinburgh doesn't really hold up either because Edinburgh is a place that is,

I mean, comedy itself explores some of the darkest stories in our lives and in humanity.

And Edinburgh is a place that is known for that.

Baby Reindeer, which is a story

stalking, a true story about stalking, was first premiered at Edinburgh.

This year, there's Huge Ass Mindset, which is a show about overcoming child abuse by Frankie McNair.

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