Home Podcasts The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

Isla Traquair 79 Episodes Oct 22, 2026

Isla Traquair, an award-winning investigative journalist, uncovers the truth behind a shocking exposé featured in the new documentary Narcissist's Playbook. A respected professor of psychology who claims to help people recover from narcissistic abuse is revealed to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. The series follows the investigation from first contact to the final confrontation, with real interviews from those at the heart of the case, international experts, survivors, and diagnosed narcissists. It is the fourth installment in The Storyteller series, following three number-one true crime podcasts.

Episodes

S4 Ep32: EP 32 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep32: EP 32 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 22, 2026 4837 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, hearing it from a professor who has become world famous for debunking misinformation about psychology on
S4 Ep31: EP 31 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep31: EP 31 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 20, 2026 3984 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 observations on some of the digital evidence particularly at the point when the victims have contacte
S4 Ep30: EP 30 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep30: EP 30 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 15, 2026 4311 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 lure them in, and the other is anonymous Englishman HG Tudor. The latter does not claim to hold any psych
S4 Ep29: EP 29 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep29: EP 29 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 13, 2026 4202 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 social media deeming her not intelligent enough, he eventually messaged her privately and everything c
S4 Ep28: EP 28 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep28: EP 28 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 8, 2026 4559 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 he's calling a "smear campaign" she brushed it off as a misunderstanding over him being a Doctor of Ph
S4 Ep27: EP 27 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep27: EP 27 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 6, 2026 3480 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 co-sponsor of this event and did not take  me up on my offer to listen to the audio of this serious safeg
S4 Ep26: EP 26 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep26: EP 26 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Oct 1, 2026 7105 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. If a psychopath tells you "his kind" are evil and cannot change, it's advisable to believe them. For ex
S4 Ep25: EP 25 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep25: EP 25 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Sep 29, 2026 3853 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 discovers a chilling remark made by Sam to the filmmakers in behind the scenes camera footage. Video versi
S4 Ep24: EP 24 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep24: EP 24 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Sep 24, 2026 3666 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 accused of abusing therapy patients. As you may already know from social media, Sam's efforts to discredit
S4 Ep23: EP 23 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep23: EP 23 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Sep 22, 2026 2564 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 into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, Dr Hill studied for a PhD in psychology and now specialis
S4 Ep22: EP 22 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep22: EP 22 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Sep 17, 2026 4068 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 defines consent as "Freely Given, Knowledgable and Informed Agreement" by a person who has capacity to reas
S4 Ep21: EP 21 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook
S4 Ep21: EP 21 - The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook Sep 15, 2026 3659 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. Triangulation and discard drove Claire to the edge, but thankfully she found the strength to expose h

Recommended