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!
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- U.S. President Richard Nixon: Resignation Speech, 1974
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994
- Ratatouille (2007): The Critic’s Job
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country…
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940