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!
- Austin Powers: Tell us about your childhood
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Michael D Higgins: Acceptance Speech
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012
- Barack Obama: 2nd Inauguration Ceremony, January 2013
- Barack Obama: “Yes, we can!” New Hampshire, 2008
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 2011)
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)