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 • 

Tony Wilson

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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 • 

Tony Wilson

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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 • 

Tony Wilson

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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 • 

Tony Wilson

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'She taught me so much just by loving me'

A subscriber sent me a bottle of gin. But her real gift is there in the pages of Speakola. Serena Ryan's eulogy for her Irish born Mum is one of the…

Aug 4 • 

Tony Wilson

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July 2025

'Robin Williams, what a concept'

It’s still the 21st of July in the USA (just), and it would have been Robin Williams' 74th birthday. The send off delivered by Billy Crystal at the 2014…

Jul 22 • 

Tony Wilson

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'He is tiresome, but very wise'

Have you ever heard Joseph Stalin's voice? This radio broadcast is from 3 July 1941, 84 years ago today, and recorded 11 days after Hitler tore up the…

Jul 3 • 

Tony Wilson

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June 2025

Solomon in a Singlet

I sometimes do a date search on Speakola to see what speech-aversaries are about. 27th June was the date of Andrew Rule's eulogy for his bushman father…

Jun 27 • 

Tony Wilson

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