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!
- Ernest Hemingway: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Address to Houses of Parliament, London, 2012
- Hilary Clinton: CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2008
- Sidney Poitier: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Michael Douglas: “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” (2010)
- Earl Spencer: Tribute to Princess Diana, September 1997
- Kelly McDonald: ‘The Girl in the Café’, 2005
- Nelson Mandela: Supreme Court, Pretoria, 1964
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- Enda Kenny, Magdalene Laundry Apology, February 2013