Audio Stories by The Spill

Are you tired of buying new stuff, and mindlessly gifting for Christmas? We’ve got you. If you're looking for a way to give back this year, and contribute to something good, these charities could really use your help. Author: The Spill Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/life

DEI is a mere buzzword in the average organisation because it excludes people with disabilities Author: Mahevash Shaikh Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/life

These podcasts have something to say, and we’ve been listening to them non-stop. Author: The Spill Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Culture-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/culture

6 things you can actually do at home that are better for your health, your wallet, and the environment Author: The Spill Category: ENVIRONMENT Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Environment-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/environment

American shows and films marked my childhood. A recurring theme in most of them was bullying, so I grew up believing that bullying was a serious problem for children in the West - and only in the West. TW: This article contains mentions of bullying, suicide. Author: Aisha Kabiru Mohammed Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related...

As I pushed the limits of my body I realised self-love is a practice that can pay off in more ways than one. Author: Shems Rocha Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Arts-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/self

This week, my boyfriend and I celebrated our anniversary; we met three muddy years ago at a festival in Oxfordshire. It’s a tale I’m quite smug about: besides the odd fling during my school days, I’d never met someone in person before and had it stick. Author: Eleanor Noyce Category: ARTS Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Arts-related stories, head...

In ‘The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME Mental Health in the UK’, a ground-breaking collection of memoirs, essays, poetry, short fiction and artwork, Rianna Walcott and Dr Samara Linton share and amplify the voices of people of colour and their experiences with mental health - particularly those who have been touched by medical inequalities in the UK. This interview with Rianna Walcott was recor...

In Nervous Conditions , the debut groundbreaking novel of Zimbabwean feminist writer Tsitsi Dangarembga, the narrator Tambu opens with a rather shocking statement that guides most of the story. Author: Angel Nduka-Nwosu Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/life

Film screenings, plays, comedy clubs workshops. Time to pause your hibernation plans because London has something for everyone this season. Author: The Spill Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Self-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/culture

I’ve inherited my shaking hands from my mother. It accounts for both of our clumsiness. When I lived at home, I was protective of her, ever conscious of her aloneness, burdening myself with worry. Author: Hannah Turner Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Self-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/self

Objectively, it is sad when anyone dies. And when it comes to Queen Elizabeth II, it is understood that she meant a lot to many, a constant in the national psyche for a lot of people, and with a large family who will probably miss her dearly. Author: Michaela Makusha Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Culture-related stories, head...

Mental health is a universal theme, yet not often incorporated into the stories of characters of colour in fiction - but Micah Dawanyi’s second book may help break the stigma. Author: Jennifer Hakim Category: ARTS Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/arts

Sometimes, the best way to love someone is to let them go. And sometimes, the best way to love yourself is a clean and final friendship breakup. Author: Jennifer Hakim Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/life

Never have we needed trade unions more to protect our sexual and reproductive health rights. Author: Beauty Dhlamini Category: POLITICS Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/politics

Setting aside the pandemic as a motivator for embracing the rising culture of anti-ambition, a shift in society’s relationship with ambition was already rising. Author: Hannah Shewan Stevens Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Life-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/life

Seeing Beyoncé give the middle finger to the assumption Black women can't wear blonde hair was an awakening Author: Mide Olabanji Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Politics-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/self

I’m lying in bed recovering from a migraine when I receive a WhatsApp from my fellow disabled pal Cath. “Want some ableist rage?” she asks. With the message, she’d attached a link to a tweet from one of the candidates to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Ministerial hopeful Rishi Sunak, revealing that if he won, he would fine people £10 for missing GP and hospital appointments...

As a trans person, my recent experience of being in a play with a trans writer, director and mostly trans and non-binary cast had a profound impact on me - and proved once again why authentic representation in performing arts is so important. Author: Len Lukowski Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read. For more Self-related stories, head to https:/...

It’s so easy to live for other people that we sometimes forget to live for ourselves. This was me until a few months ago, living according to the goals and standards set by my family and society at large. Author: Lynda Ndubuaku Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read . For more Self-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/self

When I was 20, I met my first love. Our relationship was by no means perfect – in fact, there were so many red flags, but I could barely see them. I stayed for longer than I should have because there was one thing about us that I couldn’t shake, and which I continued to miss for a long time after we broke up: I felt seen. Author: Michele Theil Category: SELF Listen to the full story, or read it on...

After a three-year hiatus, Season 4 of Stranger Things is finally here - with the two last episodes of the season released only a few days ago. This article contains Stranger Things season 3 and 4 spoilers.  Author: Eleanor Noyce Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read . For more Culture-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/c...

The London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) kicked off on 24 June and I’ve had a very hard time figuring out my favourites to watch. While I haven’t been able to attend and watch them all, here are some to catch before it ends. Author: Chourouk Gorrab Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read . For more Arts-related stories, head to https://www.thespill...

Mental health sufferers do not need performative celebrity posts on social media. They need a compassionate, well-funded healthcare model and equal access to support. Author: Hannah La Ronde Category: CULTURE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Read . For more Culture-related stories, head to https://www.thespillmag.com/culture

75% of LGBTQ youth have reported that they have experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity at least once in their lifetime, according to The Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health, a survey of just under 35,000 LGBTQ young people. Author: BetterMe Category: LIFE Listen to the full story, or read it online - also available in Easy Rea...