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!
- Hilary Clinton: CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2008
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- David Cameron: Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, March 2012
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963