'He was just jogging beside me, smiling, as he caught me'

Jonah Lomu died ten years ago today. He had a heart attack from a complication relating to his chronic kidney disease. His arrival as a rugby star was…

Nov 19 • 

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Race Around the World Tips #1 - The 'Here's Me!' PTC

The first in a series of posts aimed at helping contestants apply for the new season of Race Around the World. This one is my 1997 piece to camera intro…

Published on Good one, Wilson! • Nov 15

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Well may we say ... 50 years today

Is it the greatest ever Australian speech? Maybe not. But it's definitely the greatest ever Australian soundbite!

Nov 11 • 

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October 2025

'The pledge of that generation to this generation'

It's 80 years today since the UN Charter was ratified on 24th October 1945. It's words were movingly invoked in this speech by Tony Benn MP, responding…

Oct 24 • 

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The man who lived — RIP Abram Goldberg 1924-2025

The oldest man to appear on the Speakola podcast has died, aged 100. Abram Goldberg survived the Holocaust and made living his mission. He was a…

Oct 11 • 

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September 2025

The free feed Puskas would want us to have

The AACTA Awards are kinda like the Australian Oscars. with the emphasis on the kinda. Ange & The Boss is eligible for Best Documentary Feature, and…

Published on Good one, Wilson! • Sep 29

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'Those bullets don't care about politics, income, race or religion'

Vivian St. Clair is 9 years old and was shot twice in the back and once in the arm during the Annunciation School Shooting in Minneapolis. Her mother…

Sep 18 • 

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'Political violence is political cowardice'

It's been a harrowing two days in the United States. Today, Bernie Sanders delivered a speech that you'd hope a president might present at an hour like…

Sep 12 • 

Tony Wilson

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August 2025

'Sometimes our first instinct is to want to hit a homosexual in the mouth'

Huey P.Newton was co-founder of the Black Panthers in 1966. On this day in 1970, he gave a speech to his macho membership about embracing women and the…

Aug 15 • 

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10 years — The ten most visited speeches (Part 2)

Now for the top 5. These are the most visited speeches on the Speakola site across the last ten years, as measured by Squarespace analytics.

Aug 12 • 

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10 years — The ten most visited speeches (Part 1)

These are the ten most visited speeches on Speakola, according to Squarespace analytics.

Aug 11 • 

Tony Wilson

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Every significant speech ever delivered, by anyone, forever

The Speakola website launched on the 5th of August, 2015. It's ten years old this week. Here is the story of how it came to be.

Aug 6 • 

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