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!
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Barack Obama: The Economy. Osawatomie, Kansas: December 2011
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- Michael D Higgins: Acceptance Speech
- Alan Shore: ‘Boston Legal’ The Mighty Rogues, 2008
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Michael Douglas: “Greed is Good” (‘Wall Street’, 1987)
- King George VI: September 3, 1939 (‘The King’s Speech’)
- Michael D. Higgins: Inauguration Speech
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Address to Houses of Parliament, London, 2012