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: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Larry Page: University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms in Education
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)
- Julia Roberts: ‘Erin Brockovitch’ – A Lame-Ass Offer
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Martin Luther King: I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (1968)
- Barack Obama: Dublin 2011