Podcasts

UC Berkeley’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs produces two UC Berkeley News podcasts — Berkeley Voices and Berkeley Talks. You can listen and read transcripts on UC Berkeley News, and follow both shows on your favorite podcast listening app or on YouTube.

To learn how to start your own podcast at Berkeley, which includes campus podcast requirements, see our guide to podcasting. 

Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices is an award-winning podcast that explores the work and lives of fascinating UC Berkeley faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars and artists. It aims to educate listeners about Berkeley’s advances in teaching and research, spark curiosity about the deeper layers of American history and to build community across our diverse campus.

For the 2024-25 academic year on Berkeley Voices, our theme was transformation. In eight episodes, we looked at how transformation — of ideas, of research, of perspective — shows up in the work that happens every day at UC Berkeley. See all episodes in the series.

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Berkeley Voices: How seeing a new color stretches the limits of human perception

Ann Johnson sits in her wheelchair with a cord plugged into a neuroprosthesis implant while she participates in a clinical trial helping to restore her ability to speak with a brain-computer interface
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Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa
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Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship
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Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

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Berkeley Voices: We learn what to fear. Can we unlearn it?

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex
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Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

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Berkeley Talks

Lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.

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Berkeley Talks: How Berkeley became a powerhouse for innovation and startups

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Berkeley Talks: Long considered ‘too big to fail,’ the ocean needs a new narrative

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Berkeley Talks: How art allows us to see everyday things anew

three side-by-side headshots of Melike M. Fourie, Emiliana Simon-Thomas and Allison Briscoe-Smith
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Berkeley Talks: How forgiveness changes you and your brain

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Berkeley Talks: Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna on CRISPR and the future of gene editing

UC Berkeley Journalism student Erika Zaro interviews Berkeley education professor Travis Bristol in a studio as journalism professor Shereen Marisol Meraji watches wearing headphones
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Berkeley Talks: Berkeley scholars unpack what’s at stake for U.S. democracy

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