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.

Tyler Lee-Wynant stands among shelves lined with boxes of archival materials in the California Language Archive

Berkeley Talks

Lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.

Podcasts

Berkeley Voices

For 50 years, she recorded her Pomo language. Her voice is helping this student reclaim his culture.

Berkeley Voices season 2: Two sides of a story

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

Berkeley Voices: A stroke left her ‘locked in.’ With the help of AI, she heard her voice again.

Berkeley Voices: Fakes, replicas and forgeries: What counts as art?

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

Berkeley Talks

Berkeley Talks: Top Biden official calls for unity, ‘moral courage’ in public service

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

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

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

Berkeley Talks: How forgiveness changes you and your brain

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