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!
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Hilary Clinton: CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2008
- Barack Obama: Democratic Convention speech, September 2012
- Ratatouille (2007): The Critic’s Job
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Bono: Commencement Address, Penn State
- US President Lyndon B. Johnson: War on Poverty, 1964
- iPad advertisement, 2011: “If you asked”
- Paul Keating: The Redfern Address, 1992
- Clark Gable: ‘It Happened One Night’ 1934