QWightLike. A Podcast.

Welcome to another full, chat-filled, tank of talk and titbits to fuel your day.  We’re dissecting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, so far (up to the Round of 32), particularly as it affects Scots and English supporters.  Even if the footie you like is not this kind, we hope you’ll take kindly to our gentle meander around the sport that has grown men still kicking an inflated sphere around a piece of gras...

Welcome to 7th heaven otherwise known as episode 7 of the fourth series of QWightLike A Podcast bringing you another hour of topical chat and discussion, sprinkled with a little bit of humour, as well as news of travels and travails.   This episode is the first outing of our new branding for QWightLike, which we hope you like.  A more dynamic visual vibe that moves away from the literal diamond sh...

A hearty greeting from Tim and Rory, to our half-a-dozenth episode of our (may the) fourth series, and, as always we have crammed in the usual topical chat and our personal musings on what we’ve both been up to since our last outing. A sprinkler of topics douses you with observations on local elections, on fund raising discos, on birthdays, and, amongst so much more, on the joy of taking delivery...

A slightly delayed post-production window, caused by DJ duty preparation, and the ensuing recovery from a 4 hour non-stop set, sees us deliver the 5th episode of our 4th series, somewhat within the vicinity of our normal cadence. A packed chat, explores a host of subjects but we delve deeply into 2 key areas of increasingly topical relevance to us all.  The first is the looming local government re...

A travel-packed episode brings the bustle of Barcelona to our island shores as Tim walks us through a recent fun-packed trip to the Catalan city sharing all the delights of sightseeing and the culinary diversions enjoyed on the way.  With family in variously, Sheffield, Kathmandu, and Japan, Tim introduced the concept of how science has annihilated distance.  A theorem ascribed by Tim to Evelyn Wa...

The podcast equivalent of feeding the five thousand with sparse chat representing the loaves and the fishes is brought to you by Tim and Rory with a little help from our friend, Ed Blake of Ventnor, who operates a successful fishing business.  Rory’s loaves (and buns) ensure we have bookends for a full menu of topical chat both in the studio and out on location. Tim meets up with Ed at Ventnor’s S...

Then we’ll begin this episode 2 with some island chat about exciting new hospitality discoveries compared against favourite old haunts, before encouraging you to buckle up as we swerve headlong down our very own Cresta Run of fast-paced political observations, all before hurtling down the icy slopes of topical chat to find Brits discussing the weather, foreigners, and sport. We criss-cross the new...

OK we’re back.  It’s a new year.  It’s a new series of QWightLike A Podcast and we’re being talked of as the longest running podcast on the Isle of Wight, by those close to the Isle of Wight podcast scene.  As our fourth year of continuous talking whilst podcasting commences we kick-off with our first resolution putting more structure into our episodes in a vain attempt to compress time whilst exp...

As December speedily runs out of days we offer up a festive-readiness edition of our pod, that is light on festive readiness, but leaves hints that something big is looming just around the corner. Acutely aware of our respective obligations to contribute temporal and digital seasonal pronouncements, we prevaricate around topical news, trips, and island discoveries.  This may or may not be our pre-...

Another instalment of chirpy chat chunters in your direction with a good sprinkle of laughs, opinion, and reminiscences.  The clocks have gone back warming up our TV snug viewings with dark evenings, and our minds are turned back in time to remember a TV classic from the mid-80s available to catch-up on BBC IPlayer and BBC4.  The Edge of Darkness marks the beginning of our winter viewing recommend...

Returning from the holiday hiatus, your heroic hosts hunker down to hark back at the various highlights and happenings that surrounded our various trips h’away with the ladies.  Both parties experienced sniffles whilst away but we still found plenty to extol and share of our adventures abroad. Safely ensconced back home, we share our ramblings as we settle back into our island life and continue wh...

A frustrated period of post-production on the podcast comes to an end with a Scottish nose thumbed up at a new technology offering which failed to perform as advertised, thus delaying the release of this twelfth episode of topical chat from series the third.  Mentioning no names, your team reverted to traditional methods of episode production despite trialling a new tool to record.  The grand plan...

We’re back after a busy few weeks with so much to say, and so little time to say it in, that we do our best to cram in as much as we can to this hour of honest hokum.  As with all best laid plans, we perhaps set out to cover much more material than our diverse ramblings can facilitate, and so find ourselves with more to pack into this shopping bag of chat than you can bear within an hour of your l...

Summer has been teasing us with long hot days, festivals, and hosepipe bans, so what better place to start than a meander through the many magnificent moments we’ve already experienced this summertide and a tantalising glimpse at the many more to come. A debrief on our very own Isle of Wight Festival which took place as we released episode 9 gives an insight into how to enjoy days out as does a me...

Another enforced lengthy gap between episodes sees us fire out of the blocks with some gusto with our chat guns set to share. From perfect beach days bookended with work commitments and snooping air fryers, to island artisan food producers, purveyors and places, we pull you through a whistle stop tour of great stops for breakfast, lunch and a bit of cheeky retail therapy. Gardening joy tumbles fro...

As we settle into a 3 week cadence between episodes to increase our planning time and to decrease the competitive pressures on your listening choices, we take time to celebrate activities enjoyed on and off the island.  After all, we qwight like the Isle of Wight and we quite like lots of places off-island, especially, as it makes coming home a further bonus. From the Duver by Bembridge,  to the w...

A cheeky title for this episode, the motive for which you will have to listen in to understand.  Sharp-witted humour and spicy chat is served up as a condiment to complement your diet of speech podcasting.  We weave between rivers of nostalgic reminiscences and the pleasure of mapping out future plans, in our very own conclave as we ruminate on potential exciting outside broadcast scenarios from b...

Another hour of topical chat starts off with a nostalgic foray into the world of the trade fair.  Recollections of times gone by, when sales were made, hangovers earned and swag gathered, are brought right up to date as Tim inventorises his plunder from an event at Birmingham's NEC.  Stationery stocked up for the year ahead, we discuss how trade fairs have evolved, and evaluate if the Isle of Wigh...

Early season holidays for musical farewells and tributes,  nostalgic interventions, mysteries and discoveries both near and far set us off on a magical tour of road trips and amazing destinations. Listen to find out how we mesh all these themes together in a rolling chatathon covering the last few weeks on and off the Isle of Wight.  Time to consider booking your ferries and accommodation so you,...

Back to the fray after an extra week away ready to engage with you and our mission is sharing topical chat and community commentary to wile away an hour or so … or perhaps will away all hope.  Seriously, it's with our pleasure that we bring you a fast paced episode covering all the ground from Totland Bay to Ryde Pier Head as well as the trans-Atlantic stand-off between serious world leaders and t...

Our third outing of 2025 starts off with a review of the last few weeks on and off the island.  Tim has now concluded his course of radiotherapy in Portsmouth which involved mid-week hotels and further therapy in charity shops, which become are fast becoming a recurring theme and so stoke the competitive boilers of our co-hosts with a challenge for episode 4.  Tune in to play along with us. As you...

Hurtling into the momentum-fuelled, content-rich, world of QWightLike A Podcast, episode 2 of our third series brings you another panoply of pervasive ponderings, as your brave hosts lunge fully clothed into revealing discourses peppered with topical chat and other meanders. Tim, is on the mainland being peppered with atomic particles whilst Rory remains on the island salting away ideas for future...

Greetings from the great diamond isle in the south … of England … as we bring you the 46th instalment of topical chat as we launch the 3rd series of QWightLike A Podcast. We have been recording our chats for 2 years now and embark on this new year of opportunity and potential and so we indulge ourselves with a little look back over the last 2 series of the Pod and pick out some of our highlights. ...

As our second season of podcasting draws to a close we release our 45th episode in time for Christmas 2025.  We focus once again on topical chat, which at this time of year typically means discussing arrangements, traditions and evaluating hopes and aspirations. A run through seasonal preparations in anticipation of TV highlights, carols in the open air and trips off-island signal the home straigh...

Here we are again as we wrap up November, and  ready ourselves to unwrap Christmas.  We find ourselves somehow ruminating on the state of the social contract whilst discussing gateway drugs that introduce you to a lifetime of addiction to the festive season, as partners start topping up decorations, and the all important, and annual, new set of fairy lights Weather, pannage pork and weird shaped m...