QWightLike. A Podcast.

As the boundaries between light and dark, ‘twixt summer and winter begin to thin and fade, and as the warm, azure skies and glistening seas give way to crisp, cooler, autumnal hues QWightLike A Podcast returns to old friends and familiar themes.  Once again, we invited Dr Malcolm Schofield from the University of Derby to join us for a topical chat exploring all things Halloween.  Spirits are high...

A week late, for reasons beyond our reasonable control, we surge onto the playing field to bring you another pitch perfect cast of the pod, hoping for a bite or two on Spotify, or wherever you fish for your chat content. Invited by friend of the podcast, Ed Blake, who triples as a successful fisherman, local Councillor, and star player of Ventnor Rugby Football Club, Tim and I spent a charming aft...

Back from an enforced holiday break, the island’s longest, continually running podcast* (sorry Harriet), presents to you our 41st episode from our combined 2 series across 21 months, being broadcast come hell or high water. We bring to you a follow-up from our outside broadcast for our 40th episode and related important sporting fixtures that draw threads together from as far afield as north east...

With the football (soccer) season well underway and with diary challenges perplexing your podcast planners, we found ourselves together instead, not in a cosy studio, but in Beatrice Avenue, East Cowes, one balmy, summer’s Wednesday evening, for an Isle of Wight cup and local derby clash. Friendly rivals, Newport Isle of Wight FC , found themselves drawn against East Cowes Victoria Athletic A.F.C....

The boys are back in town after a short, medically-induced, break from the studios.  Nothing, it seems, can keep our dedicated duo from fulfilling our services to podcastery.  Cries of relief are heard all across the land, after all, where else can you eavesdrop on a conversation between 2 ageing men covering subjects as diverse as obscure Olympic sports, Liz Truss and the wonders of authentic Sco...

The freshest QWightLike A Podcast episode yet appears before you on your podcast shelves as these collected bits and bytes form eloquent gyrations seeking to entertain and inform.  Unlike this week’s King’s Speech which seeks to legislate, this podcast seeks to elaborate on all manner of topical chat. We range from polite politics through to dogs on beaches via the perennial debate as to whether t...

Our marathon UK Westminster general election coverage is spread across 2 sessions, 24 hours apart.  The first on polling day itself as the close of poll drew inexorably nearer, Tim’s and Rory’s political junkie credentials come to the fore as they look forward to the night ahead.  Predictions, Portillo moments and election snacks are covered as we prepare for the results that may just have a momen...

The weather starts so many conversations especially in the long awaited, and oft missed summer season and our podcast continues this tradition with a typically wishful look at the weather past, present and future before straying into the topical minefield of elections and football tournaments.  Who will be the winner, who will score the most own-goals, we bet it won’t be the media.  Off to place a...

Normal service is being resumed as the QWightLike A Podcast team return from an elongated and unscheduled break following illness, family visits, operations and holidays, to return with our usual conversational interventions to ease you into your weekend and beyond. A lot has happened and so we slightly run over our allotted studio time to bring you our highlights from the last month or so of enfo...

Fashion dictates following a crowd, but your heroic dadcasters struggle to present a contemporary image to the outside world relying on personal brand and witty repartee to create any sort of impression. This episode takes a gentle stroll through island eateries and refreshment stops, discussing ferries and the Anglo-Saxon barbarians who disrupted England’s last pagan kingdom (yes, the Isle of Wig...

Welcome to another chat-filled digital space competing for space and time in your eardrums as we continue our gentle lollop towards the heady bright days of Spring and Summer.  The island slowly comes alive at this time of year with plenty for us to experience and share with you. This episode is largely given over to another scoop interview with one of the many generations of Blakes that have shap...

Another fortnight crammed full of travel is tipped out onto the podcast recording console to inform and, hopefully educate.  Rory’s return to Scotland with fanfares at border crossings.  Tim’s rather more sombre trip to Kraków taking in Auschwitz-Birkenau as well as the pleasure of experiencing the city’s cultural, architectural and culinary delights … all after jetting off easily to get there. Fo...

A torrent of topical tales tumble into your shell like, as Tim and Rory wax the surfboard of chat and get to grips with stories from across the island and mainland, mixed with serious reflection on mother nature sliding into our mentions with interventions re-shaping the world around us. Who else weaves the Tufty Club into Darth Vadar and the Green Cross Code man whilst promoting music festivals a...

Join Tim and Rory, for a jaunt around the island and many vaguely related subjects linked together by our shared ability to wax lyrical on almost anything and everything. We've been out, visiting beaches and "beverage opportunities", getting rained on and can be found in this podcast riffing, in the best tradition of the latest online influencer ... the Dadcaster, on all manner of su...

A Valentine’s Day massacre (of Rory’s new roving microphone and headset) was narrowly averted by Tim’s free wheeling interview with the long-time Green party candidate for the Isle of Wight, VIx Lowthion.  As we continue our conversations with island politicians in the run up to the General Election, Tim manages to host a chat with Vix that ranges from her vision for the island as an active politi...

A wintry week with colds galore led us not down the garden path but rather along our much loved international tourist magnet here on the island being the Military Road.  This oft deified drivers’ paradise is facing its own challenges from the onward march of the sea and the elements as the tarmacadam sits perilously waiting to be consumed by nature.  If we don’t save it what damage will be down to...

As we career through the early weeks of 2024, evaluating early 20th century London postal delivery frequencies compared with the capital’s 21st century refuse collection cadence (yes really), sit with us as we review the early progress of  our New Year resolutions.  Listeners … we’re on it.  There’s no rowing back from us on these commitments and when they make the movie of this podcast they’ll se...

Happy New Year to all our listeners as we all welcome 2024 into our lives along with a new series of QWightLike A Podcast. In this new episode 1, Rory and Tim review their Christmas and New Year celebrations telling tales of their family gatherings and reviewing favourite festive flicks. Who had the most embarrassing gift unwrapping moment? Who received the gift of a terrible viral load to be laid...

So as our first season draws to a close, we have an opportunity to look back over the last 12 months, 24 episodes (not including this one) and the evolution of our little idea to share our chats. We also take the seasonal route to discuss memories of Christmas as young children, and how much-loved family traditions survive the dilutive effects of marriage and aging. Fuelled by mulled wine and minc...

With Christmas approaching we turn our attention to festive fare, topical tipple and the all important links from our island to the mainland that bring families together, facilitate economic activity and deliver entertainment to our audiences. A wide ranging chat on Christmas meals at popular island eateries wraps a warm pair of arms around a fireside chat between Tim and Bob Simpson, the managing...

Deaths of the great and the good, but entirely coincidentally, are traditionally announced in threes, so the old adage goes, so, as we put episode 23 together we learned of the passing of Henry Kissinger, Alistair Darling and Shane MacGowan. In their own different ways they have touched the lives of millions and Tim has some very personal reflections on his first encounters with Shane and his band...

Episode 22 blows in with the, seasonally adjusted, cooler winds from the north to guide you through the chilly weekend ahead with cosy chat and insulating insights from Tim, Rory, and their guest this week, Dr Malcolm Schofield from the University of Derby. Malcolm is a lecturer in psychology with research interests in paranormal belief, religious belief and spirituality. Malcolm has had wide-rang...

Another packed episode full of topical chat and a fascinating q&a between Tim and Rory, aims to entertain whilst sharing another wet weekend with you all. Our special guest is Richard Quigley, the Labour parliamentary candidate at the next General Election for the new West Wight constituency. Richard is a lively and fascinating character so listen in to him and Tim talk about motivation for se...

As we lurch daily towards the Christmas festivities we turn our heads to enjoy the fireworks displays laid on locally, plus start planning our podcast Christmas lunch. Find out if we're premature or super-organised as always when it comes to planning ... in Tim we trust. Part 2 of Tim's chat with Graham Biss of Gift to Nature concludes and Rory is road-tested meeting up with one of our loy...

Episode n-n-n-nineteen floods into your podcast queue with a promise to keep you company whilst your wellies dry out ready for the next Atlantic-born deluge to make landfall. Our topical chat ebbs and flows through a smorgasbord of subjects carefully curated to inspire, to entertain and to inform. With so much to squeeze in, settle down and enjoy part 1 of a 2-part conversation TIm has with Graham...