I am pleased to announce the third nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, Peter Rushton, the Assistant Editor of Heritage & Destiny magazine, who has been nominated for a speech he made at the John Tyndall Memorial Meeting that was held in Preston during October of last year.
Peter is a very popular and well practiced public speaker who has very clear diction and has learned to speak in a voice that conveys authority. He makes excellent use of emphasis and modulation of tone, and is able to stir the emotions of his audience.
This is a long speech and one that deals with some technical issues relating to legislation designed to stifle freedom of speech, however Peter prevents his performance from becoming dull and didactic by engaging a degree of audience participation, and he does this without any loss of control, which shows considerable skill.
By Max Musson © 2018
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