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!
- Julia Roberts: ‘Erin Brockovitch’ – A Lame-Ass Offer
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Tony Blair: Labour Party Conference, 2006
- Barack Obama: Democratic Convention speech, September 2012
- Paul Keating: The Redfern Address, 1992
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- Marianne Williamson: Our Deepest Fear. (‘Coach Carter,’ 2005)
- iPad Introduction, 2010 (8 mins)
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012