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!
- John F Kennedy Visits Ireland: British Pathé (1963)
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Barack Obama: Death of Osama Bin Laden: May 2011
- Enda Kenny, Magdalene Laundry Apology, February 2013
- Barack Obama: Victory Speech, November 2012
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- Bill Gates: Harvard, June 2007