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Hosted by The Storyteller: Violent Delights · True Crime · EN · 34 episodes
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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Signup to Generate a PitchFollowing on from the smash-hit success of Series One of The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul, comes Series Two - Violent Delights.
Recent episodes include "S4 Ep32: EP 32 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook" (22 October 2026, 81 minutes), "S4 Ep31: EP 31 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook" (20 October 2026, 66 minutes), and "S4 Ep30: EP 30 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook" (15 October 2026, 72 minutes).
The Storyteller: Violent Delights publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 65 minutes across 34 episodes.
Booking probability for The Storyteller: Violent Delights is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Storyteller: Violent Delights requires a Pod Score of 81 or higher. The Storyteller: Violent Delights's contact route on record: public web form.
The Storyteller: Violent Delights is a true crime show with 34 episodes published.
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Episode #32
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...
Episode #31
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...
Episode #30
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...
Episode #29
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...
Episode #28
Sam Vaknin was her idol - Grace is second year PhD Philosophy student and for years she has admired the man she believed to be professor. He wasn't just someone she watched from afar, he became a mentor and was even...
Episode #27
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...
Episode #26
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 #25
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...
Episode #24
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...
Episode #23
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...
Episode #22
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...
Episode #21
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...
Episode #20
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...
Episode #19
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...
Episode #18
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...
Episode #17
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...
Episode #16
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...
Episode #15
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...
Episode #14
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...
Episode #13
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...
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