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Speeches - Churchill's wartime speeches
A look at how Winston Churchill, one of Britain's best known orators, used different techniques effectively in his wartime speeches. Simon Armitage examines how Churchill used compressed language, metaphor, rhythm, repetition, pauses, rhymes, half-rhymes and powerful imagery in his speeches to create "masterpieces of inspiration".
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