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The Storyteller: Violent Delights
by The Storyteller: Violent Delights
Following on from the smash-hit success of Series One of The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul, comes Series Two - Violent Delights. In this one-case deep dive, Isla Traquair returns to Scotland to investigate a true-crime Shakespearean tragedy involving a beautiful young housemaid to the Royal Family who is swept off her feet by a charismatic Prince Charming and ends up in the dock accused of murder. Her trial alongside two co-accused was the most sensational case in Scottish history with the twists and turns of a complicated love story that went very wrong.
Episodes
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S4 Ep32: EP 32 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The Professor's verdict - From the absurd to the abhorrent, Psychology Professor Inna Kanevsky examines the impossibilities of Sam Vaknin's academic claims. There is no paper trail, there is no proof he has any qualifications in any subject. Although all of this has been covered in the series,...
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S4 Ep31: EP 31 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Part 2 - HG Tudor gives his perspective as a diagnosed narcissistic psychopath on the behaviour of another diagnosed narcissistic psychopath, Sam Vaknin. Following on from Part 1 in which we listened back to the key moments of the confrontation interview with the fake professor, HG now offers his...
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S4 Ep30: EP 30 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
EP 30 - Psychopath on Psychopath Part 1. There are two big names who are both diagnosed narcissistic psychopaths serving a niche on the internet offering insights into their pathology. One is Sam Vaknin, who is accused of multiple allegations of sexually abusing women using fake credentials to…
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S4 Ep29: EP 29 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Being seen - British healthcare worker "Rachel" tagged along with a friend to watch author Sam Vaknin do a seminar on narcissism in London in November 2018. He was yet to name himself the made-up title of Dr Professor. Over a year later, after he had criticised her in the comments section of his...
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S4 Ep28: EP 28 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Sam Vaknin was her idol - Grace is a second year PhD Philosophy student and for years she has admired the man she believed to be a professor. He wasn't just someone she watched from afar, he became a mentor and was even referenced in her Masters thesis. When she recently heard via Sam about what...
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S4 Ep27: EP 27 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The mystery woman - an alarming incident at one of Sam Vaknin's seminars in Macedonia last year was recorded by one of the attendees who herself believes she was being targeted. The director of CIAPS, Anthony Kila, who is himself currently under investigation for being a fake therapist, was a...
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S4 Ep26: EP 26 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Monsters do exist - An introduction to HG Tudor, the faceless diagnosed psychopath who keeps his identity a secret but tells Isla Traquair that one day he will reveal himself, even if it's at his funeral. In this episode you'll learn some chilling details about psychopaths and warnings to heed.…
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S4 Ep25: EP 25 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Analysis Part 2 - In the second part of this special analysis episode Sam's former collaborator Richard Grannon, Director Mark Vicente and investigative journalist Isla Traquair continue to assess the dog whistling videos Sam Vaknin released ahead of the documentary and podcast release. Isla...
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S4 Ep24: EP 24 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Analysis Part 1 - In April 2026, Isla Traquair, Richard Grannon and Mark Vicente met up in London ahead of the BAFTA screening of the documentary. The social media campaign had been running for two months and Sam Vaknin knew it wouldn't be long before he would be exposed as a fake professor…
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S4 Ep23: EP 23 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
How many victims? - Criminologist Dr Graham Hill gives an estimate of the likely number of potential victims of fake professor and serial sex predator Sam Vaknin. Following a successful career in the police as a Senior Investigating Officer, including leading the British side of the investigation...
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S4 Ep22: EP 22 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
TRIGGER SA - When "yes" means "no" - This was the title of Joyce Short's famous TEDx Talk in which she details her personal experience of SA. As the founder of the Consent Awareness Network, Joyce and colleague Nina Lucas deliver one of the most important messages of this entire series. CAN…
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S4 Ep21: EP 21 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Claire's Story Part 3 - In the final episode of Claire's story, she explains how Sam Vaknin knew which buttons to push to further destroy her mental health. Everything she had told him when she first approached him in a suicidal state, he used against her further compounding her desire to end it....
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S4 Ep20: EP 20 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Claire's Story Part 2 - In Sam's own words and explicitly stating he is speaking about himself, he tells his audience that "only severely mentally ill, broken, damaged traumatised women will succumb" to his psychology and sexuality. Succumb means to lose the determination to oppose something,...
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S4 Ep19: EP 19 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Claires's Story Part 1 - Two weeks into the podcast's release, the victim who had reached out to Ann and brought the women together, sent a text to investigative journalist Isla Traquair offering to take part. Sam Vaknin's tailor-made abuse had left it's mark on her and it wasn't until listening…
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S4 Ep18: EP 18 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Old wounds - Australian director Ian Walker had to leave a hotel in the middle of the night and fly home from Europe due to the abuse he suffered while filming Sam Vaknin for the documentary I, Psychopath in the late 2000s. When Isla Traquair reached out to him in 2025 to inform him of her...
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S4 Ep17: EP 17 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The Wolf - there's no coming back from this explosive episode as the fake professor Sam Vaknin damns himself with his own words. For a man who claims to have an IQ higher than Einstein, he's been incredibly careless. There is no more hiding in plain sight. We see him, we see his lies, we see his...
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S4 Ep16: EP 16 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Herculean Task - Sam Vaknin appealed to the filmmakers to focus their documentary on differentiating between the credentialed and the non-credentialed and goes as far to say it should be a crime to talk about narcissism online unless you are licensed. Investigative journalist Isla Traquair took…
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S4 Ep15: EP 15 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The horrors come to light - Richard Grannon was left grappling with his new reality after learning the details of the allegations of abuse against his former business partner. He's also shown written proof that Sam Vaknin knew he was infecting his patients with a cancerous strain of HPV. As a...
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S4 Ep14: EP 14 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Collateral - having returned to Sam Vanknin's sphere, Richard Grannon found himself detaching again from the chaos of the malignant narcissistic following further professional challenges. But not before Sam obtained collateral on him and played a therapy patient and Richard like puppets. This was...
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S4 Ep13: EP 13 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Betrayal - Richard Grannon describes how his world fell apart when he discovered the man he'd been working with for seven years had been accused of sexually abusing therapy patients and had been accessing women through their seminars designed to help victims of narcissistic abuse. Richard…
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S4 Ep12: EP 12 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The Destruction Package - "There is an infinite power in eradicating another person. A God-like power." This was Sam Vaknin's intention with every target he set his sights on. In this episode former patient Ann explains how her mind and later her body were hijacked by the fake professor. You will...
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S4 Ep11: EP 11 -The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The lure - Sam Vaknin tells tall tales and it's these fantastical stories about his life which create intrigue and admiration for his victims. Triumph over adversity, branded a genius as a child but then abused, going to prison and coming out a reformed man who works as a healer, educator and...
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S4 Ep10: EP 10 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Ann's story - in a moment of crisis, she reached out for advice to a psychologist recommended by her own therapist as an expert in Cluster B personalities. She sought a deeper understanding of narcissism to come to terms with what had happened her life, but instead invited in a greater evil. Ann...
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S4 Ep9: EP 9 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Vindication - A former therapy patient of Sam Vaknin witnesses her abuser being held accountable. Emotions spill out on both sides of the video call with journalist Isla Traquair. And filmmaker Mark Vicente shares his feelings about the significance of finally being believed following his own...
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S4 Ep8: Ep 8 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
An unexpected video call - investigative journalist Isla Traquair talks to a former therapy patient of Sam Vaknin and explains what happened when she confronted her abuser on camera. The woman knew nothing of the investigation that was going on behind the scenes and is told why she was kept in…
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S4 Ep7: EP 7 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The aftermath - With the adrenaline still pumping and the crew in shock at the bizarre reaction of Sam Vaknin, investigative journalist Isla Traquair calls the film producers to give them the news they've been waiting for. On her return to Scotland Isla meets Sam's former business partner…
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S4 Ep6: EP 6 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The confrontation - Deep into the interview with a renowned psychologist, investigative journalist Isla Traquair finally reveals the list of accusations that have been made against him by multiple patients who claim he sexually and psychology abused them, threatened them, infected them with a...
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S4 Ep5: EP 5 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Part one of the interview begins. After nearly a year of planning, investigative journalist Isla Traquair finally meets the predatory professor. Her mask is on as she delves deep into the topic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder during the interview with the world-leading expert who's alleged…
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S4 Ep4: EP 4 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" - this could not be more true when making plans with a diagnosed narcissist. Investigative journalist Isla Traquair encounters multiple hurdles while trying to secure a face-to-face interview with a therapist accused of abusing multiple female...
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S4 Ep3: EP 3 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Episode 3 - The investigation begins - crime journalist Isla Traquair meets with documentary producers Mark Vicente and Scott Altomare to discuss how to approach the man they can no longer interview after being contacted by a number of his former patients with claims of abuse. But before Isla can...
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S4 Ep2: EP 2 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Episode 2 - Narcissist's Playbook companion podcast delves into the genesis of the documentary and what led award-winning journalist Isla Traquair to investigate a serial predator and public figure. In this episode she interviews filmmaker and cult survivor Mark Vicente about his drive to...
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S4 Ep1: EP 1 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Episode 1 - companion podcast to Narcissist's Playbook, Empathy Not Included documentary - join award-winning investigative journalist Isla Traquair as she introduces the start of her investigation into a serial predator and discovers the truth of what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is beyond…
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S4: TRAILER - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
Coming soon - following on from three number one true crimes series, The Storyteller's brand new investigation reveals what really happened when an educational documentary film turned into a real-life thriller. Award-winning investigative journalist Isla Traquair does it again weaving the…
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S3 Ep38: Naked Villainy Bonus Brian McConnachie KC
In part one of my interview with Defence KC Brian McConnachie we learn about how he landed one of the biggest cases of his career unexpectedly. Part two, which is considerably longer and more detailed is available on the Patreon on the link below....
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S3 Ep37: Naked Villainy Bonus Gary Winter
This is part one of a three part interview with now retired Detective Inspector Gary Winter - the man responsible for getting the case to court. He reveals the huge effort it took to get the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service to agree to move the case forward. In the second and third parts of…
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S3 Ep36: Special Episode - Eric Jensen Part 2
In the second part of this in-depth interview with retired forensic officer Eric Jensen, he reveals his encounter with Kit Harrisson in the police station in 1978 following his arrest. To see the video version of this interview along with 40 plus bonus episodes, photos, documents and more click…
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S3 Ep35: Special Episode - Eric Jensen Part 1
Retired forensic officer Eric Jensen gives an in-depth interview revealing parts of evidence found at the scene which weren't mentioned during the trial. To see the video version of this interview along with 40 plus bonus episodes, photos, documents and more click on the Patreon link below....
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S3 Ep34: Naked Villainy Ep 34
Following the high emotions at the end of the trial, I reflect on the hopes of those who didn't live to see justice and I visit Brenda's sister in Ipswich. Unfortunately she couldn't face a recorded interview but I summarise her thoughts on the case and her relief at the verdict and sentencing of...
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S3: Naked Villainy - Kit's Sister Tease
A teaser of the explosive in-depth interview with the sister of convicted killer Kit Harrisson. It is available now on the Patreon. Click on the link below to access this and forty plus bonus episodes plus photos, locations, documents and much more....
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S3 Ep33: Naked Villainy Ep 33
With the verdict delivered, all that is left to do is sentence the 82-year-old man who the jury decided was guilty of killing his ex-wife 45 years prior. Judge Lord Richardson does not hold back in addressing Dr Kit Harrisson during sentencing. Outside the court Dr Brenda Page's family finally…
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S3 Ep32: Naked Villainy Ep 32
The verdict - 45 years after the brutal murder of Dr Brenda Page, a jury must decide the fate of her accused killer. The judge gives the jury his final directions and instructs them that eight or more of them must be in agreement before returning with their verdict. Listener offer - get 10% off...
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S3: Naked Villainy Bonus Tease
Ahead of the verdict, listen to an extended teaser from the Patreon with excerpts from some of the in-depth interviews. You can listen to the full interviews plus analysis of the evidence, photos of the people and places, documents and much more. Click on the link below and sign up for the price…
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S3 Ep31: Naked Villainy Ep 31
Defence KC Brian McConnachie accuses the Crown of presenting a case that amounts to fake news and urges the jury to acquit Dr Kit Harrisson on the charge of murder. For exclusive extra content, including full interviews and bonus episodes, head to the Patreon....
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S3: Naked Villainy Alison Shaw tease
Here's a taster of my interview with veteran journalist Alison Shaw. The full interview with her analysis of the evidence and background knowledge from covering the case over four decades is on the Patreon. Click on the link below....
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S3 Ep30: Naked Villainy Ep 30
Defence KC Brian McConnachie accuses "dangerous" witnesses of lying in his closing speech.
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S3 Ep29: Naked Villainy Ep 29
Advocate Depute Alex Prentice takes his final opportunity to persuade the jury that there is only one person who has lied to the court.
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S3 Ep28: Naked Villainy Ep 28
The closing speeches begin with Advocate Depute Alex Prentice repeating Dr Brenda Page's chilling words written in a letter. He weaves together the threads of the Crown case to create a strong cord. For exclusive extra content, including full interviews and bonus episodes, head to the Patreon....
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27: Naked Villainy Ep 27
More of the shocking contents of Dr Brenda Page's final letter to Kit Harrisson are revealed as the murder accused is reexamined and the defence case concludes.
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S3 Ep26: Naked Villainy Ep 26
Difficult questions are put to Kit Harrisson during cross examination by Advocate Depute Alex Prentice right from the start. And a letter from him to Brenda Page reveals she was afraid of him.
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S3 Ep25: Naked Villainy Ep 25
Curiouser and curiouser - the stories and explanations keep flowing from accused killer Dr Kit Harrisson as he continues to give evidence in court. Charles Dickens even gets a mention! For exclusive extra content, including full into interviews and bonus episodes, head to the Patreon....
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Following on from the smash-hit success of Series One of The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul, comes Series Two - Violent Delights. In this one-case deep dive, Isla Traquair returns to Scotland to investigate a true-crime Shakespearean tragedy involving a beautiful young housemaid to the Royal Family who is swept off her feet by a charismatic Prince Charming and ends up in the dock accused of murder. Her trial alongside two co-accused was the most sensational case in Scottish history with the twists and turns of a complicated love story that went very wrong.
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