There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

I guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

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Good evening. Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath from the leading expert who helped to create killing Eve's Villanelle.

Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and disturbing cases of psychopathology in recent years. His expertise has led to a consultant role on several TV series helping them accurately portray their fictional villains.

Now he shares his phenomenal insight into the minds of some of the world's most violent real-life criminals. Angela, the remorseless, a rare female psychopath casually confessed to murder on national television without a hint of regret.

Danny, the borderline switched from grandiosity to rage to despair within minutes and killed his defenseless friend without explanation. Tony, the con man, preferred charm, intimidation and sexual abuse over physical violence and once tried to dupe someone into buying the Iple Tower.

Jason, the liar, had a fantasy life that led to vicious murders around Europe and preyed on those who see the good in people.

Case by fascinating case, get to know seven of the most dangerous minds that Dr. Freestone has encountered over the last 15 years. These are up close accounts of some of the most psychopathic criminals and of what can happen if you fall victim to their supreme powers of manipulation, exploring the many factors that make a psychopath.

The complexities and contradictions of their emotions and behavior, as well as an examination of how the lives of psychopaths develop inside and outside the institutions that are supposed to contain them.

Making a psychopath opens up a window into the world of those who operate in a void of human emotion and what can be done to control them.

The book that we're featuring this evening is making a psychopath my journey into seven dangerous minds with my special guest author, Dr. Mark Freestone. Welcome to the program and thank you very much for this interview. Dr. Mark Freestone.

I'd like to be hidden. Thank you so much. Our pleasure. Now you start off the introduction in this book. You state that you're not a psychiatrist and you're not a forensic psychologist.

So tell us about your training and also tell us about bio psychosocial understanding of mental illness and mental disorders by me.

Yeah, of course, that is a good way to start out. So you sort of know where I'm coming from. So I was a sociologist I trained in sociology.

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