Iran, Erectile Dysfunction and the Cold War

Podcast: Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning · Gold Hat Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-10-10

“This man's issue and the reason why he did what he did changes the world,” Ben MacIntyre says. “He changed the world that we now live in. Without this person we would probably be living in a different world.” On today’s Free State we learn the story of Vladimir Kuzichkin, a Soviet spy working in Iran whose codename was ‘Redwood’. Redwood had a problem, a sexual problem and the author Ben Macintyre tells us of this problem and why this spy and what he did might have changed the course of history. He explains what drew him...