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!
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Michael Douglas: “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010)
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Ben Chifley: ‘The Light on the Hill’ (1949)
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Dónal Óg Cusack: Foyle Pride Festival, August 2012
- Rita Connolly: I Arise Today
- Carlos P. Romulo: “I am a Filipino”
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009