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!
- Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: 1994 Democratic Party Convention
- Edward Said: The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
- Tom Cruise / Jack Nicholson: A Few Good Men
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- Admiral William H. McRaven: Commencement Address, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
- Austin Powers: Tell us about your childhood
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)