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!
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, Pretoria, 1994
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940
- Mitt Romney Concession Speech, 2012
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989