King George VI live radio broadcast recording

King George VI live radio broadcast recording Here's a recording of one of King George VI's live Christmas broadcasts. He'd already been working with his speech therapist for over a decade, and as you can hear he's speaking pretty well, however you can still definitely hear his stutter. There's a link in the description to a whole playlist of his speeches (the VE day one is a favorite of mine). https://youtu.be/a4ZpQ1s5tR8 I really admire him because unlike so many "stuttering" celebrities people are always bringing up, who "conquered their stutters" he didn't just have a childhood stutter that he grew out of (which is actually really common). He worked really hard for years in order to be able to successfully perform his duty in speaking to his people. (For quite some time he would spend an hour a day seven days a week practicing with his speech therapist.) So many of the celebrities people are constantly pointing us to have zero trace of a stutter. Tons of people stutter as children and grow out of it. I'm not trying to say that "doesn't count" somehow, but it is really different than struggling with a stutter into adulthood, and conquering that kind of stutter isn't usually the result of a ton of really hard work - many of these people simply grew out of it. I'm not trying to be dismissive - my own father stuttered as a child and grew out of it, and it's still obviously a struggle, but still his experience with stuttering is vastly different than mine. When people bring up these celebrities to me it's just discouraging. It's MUCH more helpful and encouraging to me to see someone who had a severe stutter which persisted into adulthood who through hard work and perseverance was able to manage his stutter enough to speak in public.