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.

closeup of a peacock feather that resembles an eye
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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

line drawing of a woman with eerie-looking ghosts coming out the back of her partially missing head
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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: Energy justice expert on his pursuit for affordable and clean energy for all

woman plants spring transplants at a small-scale farm in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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Berkeley Talks: Feeding the world without ‘eating the earth’

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest
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Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like

Dense housing in San Francisco
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Berkeley Talks: In 1970, one in five Americans moved every year. Now it’s one in 13. What changed?

two images side by side: on the left, the cover of the book Open Socrates and on the right, Judith Butler and Agnes Callard in a conversation
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Berkeley Talks: The case for a philosophical life, with Agnes Callard and Judith Butler

Headshot of author J Finley next to the cover of her book: Sass: Black Women's Humor and Humanity
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Berkeley Talks: J Finley on how Black women use sass to claim their humanity

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