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!
- Earl Spencer: Tribute to Princess Diana, September 1997
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Steve Jobs: Stanford University, 2005
- Hilary Clinton: CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2008
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Address to Houses of Parliament, London, 2012
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- Tom Cruise / Jack Nicholson: A Few Good Men
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)