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!
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Dónal Óg Cusack: Foyle Pride Festival, August 2012
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Speech, Westminster, March 2012
- Bill Cosby: Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremony, 2007
- Barack Obama: Eulogy at the Funeral of Clementa Pinckney, Charleston, June 2015
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005