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!
- Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator: 1940
- Milton Friedman: Drugs Should Be Legalized (1991)
- Colin Firth: Oscar acceptance speech, Best Actor 2011
- Keith Barry: Brain Magic
- Lupita Nyong’o: Best Supporting Actress, Oscars, 2014
- Aung San Suu Kyi: Davos (January 2011)
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Martin Luther King: “I have a dream” 1963
- David Cameron: Acceptance speech, 2010
- Paul Keating: The Redfern Address, 1992