Podcasts

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

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

Berkeley Voices

Interviews with the people who make UC Berkeley the world-changing place that it is.

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

Rachel Jeantel on the stand during her testimony in the trial of George Zimmerman

Berkeley Voices: A language divided

Natalie walks on UC Berkeley's campus with her mom and younger brother.

Berkeley Voices: A linguist’s quest to legitimize U.S. Spanish

Saagar, with short dark hair and glasses, wearing a powder blue suit, holds a viola to his chin while standing in a courtyard

Berkeley Voices: Medieval song holds clues to lost dialects

A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

Black-and-white line drawing of Walter Gordon with a Cal football to his side

Berkeley Voices: Take the first Black history tour at UC Berkeley

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Berkeley Talks

Lectures and conversations at UC Berkeley.

About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

Aileen Liu, Hernan Garcia, Christian Paiz and Arianne Eason sit in chairs on a dark stage and talk

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

Michael Pollan and Mina Kim sit on stage in conversation

Berkeley Talks: It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.

a colorful gradient background with four headshots of Dacher Keltner, Lisa Damour, Allison Briscoe-Smith and Maurissa Horwitz

Berkeley Talks: The science behind the emotions in ‘Inside Out 2’

Portrait of Jemele Hill smiling

Berkeley Talks: Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race (revisiting)

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