Speakola
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Speakola is the home for great speeches on the web.
Tony Wilson is the founder and curator of Speakola, which now hosts more than 2000 speeches, some famous – think Churchill, Obama, Gandhi - some not so well known.
In each episode, Tony interviews someone who has written, delivered or studied a great speech to reveal the stories behind the scenes, to provide context to the historical moment, or in the case of eulogies, birthdays and other common events, to inspire people to hit new creative highs.
Tony will also play a ‘speech of the week’ to honour great words by great orators. Released fortnightly.
Speakola, for all speeches great and small.
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'Singing for me is sweet relief': Meg Washington's TEDx speech about stuttering — Sydney, 2014
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Steve Kilbey: 'We've been kicked off the best record companies in Australia!' — The Church's ARIA Hall of Fame induction, 7 November 2010, Sydney
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Dana Rubin: 'Throughout history, women have been changing the world with their voices', curator and author of Speaking While Female
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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'The bells of St Stephen's, tolling for Mum' — eulogy for Margaret Wilson by Tony Wilson, Melbourne, 2025
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May 13, 2025 |
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'Bob, you're dead. Do you want a state funeral?' — John Safran's eulogy for Father Bob Maguire, May 2023, Melbourne, Australia
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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'Elon Musk will become the self appointed CEO of Mars' — Sammy J in Melbourne International Comedy Festival Great Debate, 2018
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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The Speakola podcast returns & Tony's film hits cinemas (March 13-17th)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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'The greatest man I ever knew' — Andrew Moran's eulogy for father Lawrence Moran, Melbourne 2023
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Year 9s can smell fear — Declan Fay's tips and stories about speaking in schools, Eltham High Valedictory, 2023
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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'Laughter is the closest distance' — Jules Schiller's tips for the Best Man speech, Tony and Kate's wedding, 2003
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Best Speeches of 2023 — Tony presents 'The Speakolies' with Dylan Bird on The Grapevine, 3RRR
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The art of the MC — Julia Zemiro and Brian Nankervis talk about hosting and MCing
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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My husband had a magical cape — Lahra Carey's eulogy for husband Ben Cowen, Springvale Cemetery, Melbourne, 2017
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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'Men, you have ten minutes to live' — Dr Brendan Nelson's speech at a Soldier On charity gala, Canberra 2014 (witnessed by cohost Lehmo)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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The year my brain broke — Clare Wright's 'Epic Fail' speech at The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, 2014
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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We have been a collective failure — Brendan Gale's CEO address to players and officials, Richmond Football Club, March 2010
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May 26, 2023 |
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ARCHIVE: He is one of us ─ Don Watson on Prime Minister Paul Keating’s Eulogy to the Unknown Soldier, Remembrance Day, 1993
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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'Won't keep you, Les' — Andrew Rule's eulogy for Les Carlyon, Flemington, Melbourne, 2019
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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ARCHIVE: 'Lou was bigger than a legend' — Ron Joseph's eulogy for Lou Richards, RIP Ron Joseph
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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You daughters of freedom — Prof. Clare Wright on Vida Goldstein's campaign launch speech as first English speaking woman to stand for national office, Portland, 1903
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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No, Tony, I did not write the Misogyny Speech! — Speechwriter Michael Cooney on working for Prime Minister Julia Gillard, 2010-13
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Solomon in a singlet — Andrew Rule's eulogy for father Keith Rule, Lake Tyers, 1998
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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How to do a TED talk (or three) — Ruth Clare's 'The pain of hiding your true self', TEDx Melbourne, 2019
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Best speeches of 2022 - Tony presents 'The Speakolies' on Triple R's The Grapevine
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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You're more of a mattress — Laura Lexx on her bride speech, Somerset, 2015
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Give me your children! — Holocaust survivor Abram Goldberg as eyewitness to Chaim Rumkowski's speech to Jews in Lodź ghetto, Lodź, Poland, 1942 (with memoirist Fiona Harris)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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The bald legend and the feral legend — A last interview with Uncle Jack Charles, Palais Theatre, Melbourne, September 2022
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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We could quell these fires with tears — Ted Baillieu's speech for Black Saturday National Day of Mourning, Melbourne, February 2009
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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He bought the heady outside world into our house —James Button's eulogy for his father John Button, State Memorial Service, Melbourne, April 2008
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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We get one shot to recover from a global pandemic — Premier Peter Malinauskas's election night speech, Adelaide, 19th March 2022
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Lou is bigger than a legend — Ron Joseph's eulogy for Lou Richards, St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, May 2017
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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A rat race is for rats! — Kenny MacAskill MP on Jimmy Reid's Inaugural Address as Rector of Glasgow University, 1972
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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ARCHIVE: Gabriel Sterling's speech on steps of Georgia Legislature, 'Somebody is going to get killed', December 2020
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Masters of our fate — Richard Cohen on Sir Winston Churchill's rhetoric & address to joint sitting US Congress, December 1941
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May 23, 2022 |
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Queen of the verbal stilletto - Wendy Harmer and the art of the comedy debate, World Series Debating, Canberra 1993
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May 07, 2022 |
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I know, Mum! —Rana Hussein's 'Stranger than Fiction' story, 'Two Firsts', Comedy Republic, 2021
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Speakola Reads #2— Tony Wilson's tribute to Shane Warne, published in 'Australia: A Cricket Country'
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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It's not regular — Jahmal Cole's speech at MLK Jr Day Interfaith Breakfast, Chicago, 2018
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Shock, awe and disbelief — John Doyle's Andrew Olle Media Lecture, Sydney 2005
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Best speeches of 2021 - Tony presents 'The Speakolies' on Triple R's The Grapevine
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Speakola Reads #1 — Martin Flanagan's story of his journey into the Tarkine wilderness, Tasmania
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Strangely, I wasn't nervous —Adam Elliot's Academy Awards acceptance speech for 'Harvie Krumpet', Los Angeles, 2004
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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My name is Isra Mohammed — Isra Mohammed's speech to Kenton School on Islamophobia post Paris attacks, Newcastle, UK, 2015
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Unsmoke the world — John Safran on Phillip Morris' CEO's speech about a world without combustible cigarettes, 2021
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Thinking about you, Ron Barassi — Martin Flanagan's monologue for the Melbourne Demons, SEN radio, 2018
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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"Dad's gone, Dad's gone!" — Julian Leeser MP on his maiden speech, RUOK Day and his father's suicide, Canberra, 2016
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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What a life — Emily Rowe's eulogy for husband Matthew Carney, North Sydney, 2011
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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Someone is going to get killed —Gabriel Sterling's post election press conference calling out threats of violence, Georgia State Legislature, December 2020
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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To crush the spirit and body of youth — Stephen Mills on Bob Hawke's Tienanmen Square commemoration speech, 1989
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Is it to be back to the kitchen? —Lenore Coltheart on Australian feminist Jessie Street's broadcast of 1944
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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We will continue to fight — Andrea (pseudonym) on Kyaw Moe Tun's speech against Myanmar coup at the United Nations, 2021
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Tim Cahill has done it again! — Simon Hill on the art and craft of sports commentary
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May 22, 2021 |
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From Bevan to Bournemouth ─ Neil Kinnock on a life in Labour and the art of political speechmaking
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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That's my stick ─ Rob Carlton's Show & Tell, The art of salon storytellling, The Wheeler Center, 2016
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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I Have a Dream ─ Clayborne Carson on Martin Luther King's speech at the March on Washington, 1963
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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That girl was on a rocket ship to the moon ─ Nelly Thomas' eulogy for Stella Young, Melbourne Town Hall, 2014
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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My best man and my best friend ─ Tony Wilson's eulogy for Chris Daffey, 2014
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Ask not what your country ─ Fredrik Logevall on President John F Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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He is one of us - Don Watson on Paul Keating's Eulogy to the Unknown soldier, Remembrance Day, 1993
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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A Failure to Imagine ─ Don Watson on Paul Keating's Redfern Speech, December 1992
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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The Unmasked Protestor ─ Brian Leung's speech at storming of Legislative Council, Hong Kong, July 2019
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Do it, dare it, courage ─ Anna Quindlen's Commencement Speech at Washington University, 2017
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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The Australian Dream ─ Stan Grant's speech on racism at Ethics Centre IQ2 Debate, 2015
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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The Art of Living a Life ─ Andrew Denton's eulogy to John Clarke, Melbourne Town Hall, 2017
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Here I Am ─ Tania Major's speech to Prime Minister John Howard, Cape York 2003
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Humans Doing ─ Kate Mulvany's Curtin University Commencement 2017
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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A Penetrating Voice ─ Five speeches of Gandhi with Ramachandra Guha
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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An Immeasurable Gift ─ Margaret Edson's Smith College Commencement 2008
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Pay the Price ─ Allan Jeans and the 1989 Grand Final
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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The Laughter and the Tears ─ Damian Callinan on delivering eulogies
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May 03, 2020 |