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!
- Corazon Aquino: Address to Joint Session of US Congress, September 1986
- Barack Obama: Inaugural speech, January 2009
- Prince Charles: June 2012: Your Majesty, Mummy
- iPad Introduction, 2010 (8 mins)
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Lupita Nyong’o: Best Supporting Actress, Oscars, 2014
- Hugh Gallagher: College Application Essay
- Barack Obama: Cairo, June 2009
- Wangari Maathai: Nobel Lecture, Oslo (2004)