This podcast explores the British experience of alleged ‘brainwashing’ of POWs during the Korean War. By analysing the impact and legitimacy of the brainwashing narrative, it offers teachers an opportunity to examine social, cultural, and psychological implications within the AQA Conflict and Tension in Asia, 1950–1975 GCSE specification.

Tea, Toast and Totalism podcast

 
Image: British POWs guarded by Chinese PVA troops. Source: Chinese military archive (CC BY-SA 4.0)