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!
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Barack Obama: Death of Osama Bin Laden: May 2011
- Milton Friedman: Drugs Should Be Legalized (1991)
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson: War on Poverty, 1964
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: 1994 Democratic Party Convention
- Earl Spencer: Tribute to Princess Diana, September 1997
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)