Cold War Podcast--The Courier
New Benedict Cumberbatch thriller based on a true story tells a wonderful story of friendship in espionage
So my friend Flagg Taylor & I have a new podcast on the strange world of totalitarianism—we’ve done many podcasts on movies set in the strange Europe riven by ideological tyranny—this time, we’re talking about a true story that’s not catastrophic, indeed, it’s about helping prevent catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of a number of moments when the world came close to nuclear war. It's also a movie about the friendship of a British gentleman, Greville Wynne (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) & a Soviet spymaster, Oleg Penkovsky (played by Merab Ninidze), who embody civilization & help save it. There’s much in it about the character of the English people & the good & bad of liberal democracy, commercial regimes, & modern politics faced with a military tyranny. It’s wonderful, see it, stream it, you'll thank us! It's remarkably free of the sordid...