Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Marianne Williamson: Our Deepest Fear. (‘Coach Carter,’ 2005)
- Dónal Óg Cusack: Foyle Pride Festival, August 2012
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson: War on Poverty, 1964
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- Mitt Romney: Republican Convention Speech, August 2012
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”