Podcasts

UC Berkeley’s Office of Communications and Public Affairs produces two UC Berkeley News podcasts — award-winning 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 campus guide to podcasting. 

Berkeley Voices

Berkeley Voices 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, we’re exploring the theme of transformation. In eight episodes, we’re exploring how transformation — of ideas, of research, of perspective — shows up in the work that happens every day at UC Berkeley. New episodes come out on the last Monday of each month, from October through May. See all episodes in the series.

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

Berkeley Voices: From Victorian-era letters to Swiftie bracelets, an evolution of American friendship

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head

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

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

Poulomi Saha stands in front of a huge fireplace surrounded with decorative wrought iron.

Berkeley Voices: As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

a simple continuous line drawing of a face that suggests the many dimensions of a person's personality

Berkeley Voices: Psychopathy goes undetected in some people. Why?

Justin Davidson as a toddler smiles as he rides a horse and his mom smiles and holds him on the saddle.

Berkeley Voices: One brain, two languages

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Berkeley Talks

Lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.

a large crowd of people wave small American flags at a political gathering outside

Berkeley Talks: Does democracy work?

a doctor writes in a notebook while she examines medicine held in the other hand

Berkeley Talks: The transformation of US medical debt collection

two images side by side: book cover of

Berkeley Talks: Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the US

john powell, ashley gallegos and stephen menendian sit at the front of a room in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

Ocean Vuong and Cathy Park Hong

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

a panel of four Berkeley professors sit in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: How do we make better decisions?

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