European Speechwriters
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGreat advice and wisdom from those that write and deliver speeches for business and politics. A series of talks recorded at the European Speechwriter Network Conferences.
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Episodes
Chairman's Introduction - Graham Davies
November 04, 2014 22:06 - 4 minutes - 7.04 MB9th Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference - 23 & 24 October, De Burcht, Amsterdam.
Professor Robert Lehrman - What limits Presidential speechwriters?
October 21, 2014 01:23 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Bob Lehrman is a novelist, teacher, and speechwriter for dozens of Democratic political figures including Vice President Al Gore. He’s author of The Political Speechwriter’s Companion (CQPress 2009).
David Krikler - How to be funny and diplomatic
October 21, 2014 00:33 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. David is a consultant at the Tetra-Strategy PR agency. He spent several years at the Israeli Embassy in London, as the chief communications adviser to Ambassador Ron Prosor, providing round the clock counsel during a number of high-profile international incidents and gaining valuable experience of crisis communications and international affairs. He previously worked in television, as a comedy writer with ...
Sam Leith - How classical rhetoric can help you write better speeches
October 21, 2014 00:26 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Sam is the author of four books, most recently You Talkin' To Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama. He writes a column in the Financial Times about public speaking, called 'The Art of Persuasion' and also contributes to the Evening Standard and Prospect as well as reviewing books for the Guardian, Spectator and TLS. His presentation will be: What The Romans Did For Us: How classical rhetoric can help you ...
Willi Vogler - The German Speechwriting Culture
October 21, 2014 00:04 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Willi is a founder member of the German speechwriters association, Verband der Redenschreiber deutscher Sprache, launched in 1998 by the former speechwriter to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Thilo von Trotha. A trained journalist, he changed to public relations in 1968, working in managerial positions at British Airways, Lufthansa and EADS in Germany. In 1990 he became speechwriter to the newly elected Lufth...
Ben Locker - Persuasion
October 21, 2014 00:00 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Ben is an Essex-based copywriter and co-founder (with Tom Albrighton) of the Professional Copywriters' Network, the association for all agency and freelance copywriters in the UK. Ben's an experienced speaker, trainer and teacher with a bit of an obsession for the history of copywriting and a deep hatred of PowerPoint.
Caroline Johns - Tales from a speechwriter’s life in The City
October 20, 2014 23:44 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Caroline’s role as Chief of Staff to Deloitte’s global Chairman, Steve Almond, involves preparing speeches, presentations and detailed research briefings on a wide variety of subjects encompassing sport to economics to world politics, and just about everything in between. Prior to taking on this role, Caroline was Chief of Staff and speechwriter to Deloitte’s former CEO and global Chairman, John Connolly...
Jens E. Kjeldsen - What's the point of speeches - and speechwriting?
October 20, 2014 23:40 - 20 minutes - 28.9 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Jens is professor of rhetoric and visual communication at University of Bergen (Norway). He has written extensively about rhetoric, speech making, speech writing and powerpoint-presentations. He is president of the Rhetoric Society of Europe and co-founder and longtime chief editor of the research journal Rhetorica Scandinavia. For more than 15 years Kjeldsen has done speech writing courses and rhetorical...
Celia Delaney: Introduction - Speechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014
October 20, 2014 23:16 - 5 minutes - 7.33 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford.
Caroline Johns - Tales from a speechwriter’s life in The City
October 20, 2014 00:00 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBSpeechwriters & Business Communicators Conference 2014, Thursday, 3 April 2014, Oxford. Caroline’s role as Chief of Staff to Deloitte’s global Chairman, Steve Almond, involves preparing speeches, presentations and detailed research briefings on a wide variety of subjects encompassing sport to economics to world politics, and just about everything in between. Prior to taking on this role, Caroline was Chief of Staff and speechwriter to Deloitte’s former CEO and global Chairman, John Connoll...
Dr Max Atkinson - On Death by Powerpoint
September 08, 2014 17:29 - 30 minutes - 17.8 MBFormer speechwriter for Lord Ashdown and author of the definitive work on preparing speeches, Lend Me Your Ears, Max Atkinson pioneered academic research into effective political speechwriting. He was formerly a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and has held visiting professorships at the Henley Management College and other universities in Europe and the USA. He has estimated that poor PowerPoint presentations cost the UK £7.8 billion a year.
Hitler: Pure Evil or Cunning Craftsmanship?
September 08, 2014 17:26 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBA controversial talk by Christian Nicholas Eversbusch Christian holds a MA in Rhetoric and German from The University of Copenhagen and works as a speechwriter at Rhetor, Copenhagen, DK, where he also teaches speechwriting to public servants, government officials and many others. His presentation is titled: Hitler's Rhetoric - pure evil or cunning craftsmanship?
Chris Witt: Real Leaders Don't Do Powerpoint!
October 31, 2013 12:15 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBChris Witt is a speech consultant and coach based in San Diego, California. He has more than 25 years of professional speaking experience, working primarily with leaders – presidents, CEOs, and senior-level executives – who want to influence and inspire their audiences. He is the author of the international bestseller: Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint.
"Who Needs Copywriters?" David Levin: Writing for Social Media
June 03, 2013 16:25 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBA conference organised by A Thousand Monkeys & UK Speechwriters' Guild. Hosted by Bournemouth University Media School, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013. David is one of the UK's first full time, professional tweeters. He has used Twitter to help build record-breaking audiences for some of the biggest names in UK entertainment (BBC One's The Voice, Channel 4, Radio 1) and brands such as adidas, O2 and MoneySupermarket. Fresh from 'Powered by Tweets', Twitter's official UK creative confe...
"Who Needs Copywriters?" Chris West: Who Likes Cunning Linguists?
June 03, 2013 15:54 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBA conference organised by A Thousand Monkeys & UK Speechwriters' Guild. Hosted by Bournemouth University Media School, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013. Chris West’s award-winning copywriting career spans Saatchi’s to Mother, and he is one of the people claiming to have written the line “You never actually own a Patek Phillipe. You merely look after it for the next generation.” His company, Verbal Identity, creates language which creates value for his clients and uses Text Analytics fo...
"Who Needs Copywriters?" Ben Locker: How to Write your Way to Freedom
June 03, 2013 15:31 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MBA conference organised by A Thousand Monkeys & UK Speechwriters' Guild. Hosted by Bournemouth University Media School, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013. Ben is an Essex-based copywriter and co-founder (with Tom Albrighton) of the Professional Copywriters' Network, the association for all agency and freelance copywriters in the UK. Ben's an experienced speaker, trainer and teacher with a bit of an obsession for the history of copywriting and a deep hatred of PowerPoint.
"Who Needs Copywriters?" Claire Falcon: Why Bother If No One's Going To Read It?
June 03, 2013 15:21 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MBA conference organised by A Thousand Monkeys & UK Speechwriters' Guild. Hosted by Bournemouth University Media School, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013. Following a career as account director and strategist at some of London’s leading design agencies, Claire set up her own writing agency, Falcon Windsor, in 2004, to do what she enjoys most: help her clients communicate well through words. Over the years she has written corporate reports and run projects for many FTSE and other compani...
"Who Needs Copywriters?" Tim Clague: Writing for Video
June 03, 2013 14:22 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBA conference organised by A Thousand Monkeys & UK Speechwriters' Guild. Hosted by Bournemouth University Media School, Thursday 18th & Friday 19th April 2013. Tim is a BAFTA-nominee film director, winner of the Jerwood Film Prize and owner of Projector Films. He has scripted over 100 corporate videos as well as films and documentaries.
Denise Graveline, The Eloquent Woman: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 14:51 - 43 minutes - 60.6 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Edmée Tuyl, Dancing on Words - A show and tell on moving, (e)motions and motives: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 14:31 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Dr Max Atkinson, What's the difference between a speech and a press release?: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 14:15 - 26 minutes - 24.9 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
José Iturri, Lost in Translation: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 14:01 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Professor Tim Bale, David Cameron's Party Conference Speeches: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 13:43 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Rory Sutherland: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 13:12 - 19 minutes - 27.3 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Annelies Breedveld-Smit, The Mundane Life of a Speechwriter: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 13:03 - 29 minutes - 41 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.
Phil Collins, Chairman's Introduction: International Speechwriting Conference 2013
May 30, 2013 12:32 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBInternational Speechwriting - A conference organised by the UK Speechwriters' Guild in conjunction with the European Speechwriter Network, Thursday 16 May 2013, Institute for Government, London.