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!
- Queen Elizabeth II: Dublin, 2011
- Milton Friedman: Drugs Should Be Legalized (1991)
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Marianne Williamson: Our Deepest Fear. (‘Coach Carter,’ 2005)
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 2011)
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- Princess Diana: Headway Lunch, 1993
- Dónal Óg Cusack: Foyle Pride Festival, August 2012