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!
- Sidney Poitier: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Bill Cosby: Carnegie Mellon commencement ceremony, 2007
- Martin Sheen: Find Something Worth Fighting For (2010)
- Robin Williams: ‘Dead Poets Society’: Carpe Diem, 1989
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934
- Margaret Thatcher: “No, No, No!” (1990)
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963