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!
- Bill Cosby: Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremony, 2007
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, June 2012
- Jack Nicholson: Why can’t we all just get along? 1996: ‘Mars Attacks’
- John F. Kennedy: We Choose to go to the Moon
- Mary Schmich: Wear Sunscreen (1997)
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Barack Obama: Death of Osama Bin Laden: May 2011
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Robin Cook: Resignation Speech as UK Foreign Secretary, 2003
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)