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QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 14 (S3) - TV nights with Traitors and games of chessAnother 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 recommendations.As always, we share our recent trips and experiences, so can take you from Picasso at the Tate, to sausages at Stoats Farm. What’s not to like about...
2025-11-081h 03QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 13 (S3) - The tides of Ryde, holidays, and other happeningsReturning 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 where we left off with coffee stops and breakfast bites from around the island. The title hints apart, you’ll hear us wax inexorably on a multitude of subjects that ta...
2025-10-111h 02QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 12 (S3) - Cry God for Harry, Julie, Dick, and AnneA 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 was to bring you video of your two hosts dualling over an online recording session, but in the end, with time at a premium and the impossible user interface of the trialled tool fa...
2025-09-0957 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 11 (S3) - Too many items in the bagging areaWe’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 lives.Never ones to miss out on a corny segue, we spend time pon...
2025-08-091h 02QWightLike. A Podcast.Epsiode 10 (S3) - A long time dead.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 mention of Goodwood’s Festival of Speed which took place this last weekend with the island enjoying a couple of Red Arrows flypasts right over Rory...
2025-07-191h 04QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 9 (S3) - French, fryers, and favourite foodie findsAnother 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 from our lips as we recount the seasonal successes of our respective plots. Raised beds, have raised hopes, of raised yields and we don’t disappoint. Are you witnessing the sowi...
2025-06-2152 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 8 (S3) - Brews, Armada, and other diversions.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 whiff of fete at Riverfest in Newport. From the pirate shantys and cannon volleys off Ventnor and Bonchurch to the Higher Grounds of a new immobile coffee destination in...
2025-05-2455 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 7 (S3) - Sauce of the MedinaA 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 buses to cycle paths.We chant our way through gardening stories as we are surrounded by friendly weather leading us and our other halves into the great outdoors to do...
2025-05-031h 06QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 6 (S3) - Fair trade, trade fairs, and other cunning stunts!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 Wight could be turned into a floating offshore exhibition venue.How to spend our downtime fills the middle portion of our ponderous ponderings, and we wax polemically, on th...
2025-04-121h 04QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 5 (S3) - Forests, Fish and Mac'n'cheeseEarly 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, too, can enjoy the sights and sounds of the island this Spring and Summer.Don’t be strangers … we’re waiting … inside the podcast and waving a warm welcome qu...
2025-03-291h 09QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 4 (S3) - Play Misty for me!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 the US President. When the fog lifts from these challenging times the early morning mist that shrouds the dingly dells dotted across the Isle of Wight will stil...
2025-03-081h 11QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 3 (S3) - Three guys short of a burger chainOur 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 know by now we both quite like the Isle of Wight so we dedicate a portion of this serving of chat to discussing our recent experiences of the coffee sh...
2025-02-151h 13QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 2 (S3) - Charity shops and other therapiesHurtling 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 stories to share with Tim and regular listener(s).
The chat inevitably rolls around to what men do when left to their own devices on foreign shores and the episode bounces between the delights and...
2025-01-251h 06QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 1 (S3) - What's in a number!?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. We also chat about why we do it, and what motivates us to spend time grappling with the tech, the day jobs and the r...
2025-01-1154 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 20 (S2) - Pumped for trumps and festive funAs 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 straight towards Christmas itself, looming just around the corner. From carols on the Green in Rookley, across the island to carols in the Square at Yarmouth, your intrepid duo, belted out our respective favourites li...
2024-12-2153 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Epsiode 19 (S2) - Gateways to ChristmasHere 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 members of the cauliflower family hint at light and frothy podcast content, where, once we’ve lulled you into a false sense of security, we hit you with weighty analysis of the...
2024-11-231h 03QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 18 (S2) - Remember, Remember ... the 31st October?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 and hauntings afoot as our conversation explores the themes of belief, the origins of the modern Halloween and through fascinating insights into the history of spiritualism we start to peel back the...
2024-11-021h 08QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 17 (S2) - Godzilla, and other legendsA 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 afternoon dodging horizontal rain whilst marvelling at the entertainment served up, both in glass and on grass. To coin a phrase, we’ll be back, to enj...
2024-10-191h 11QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 16 (S2) - A whiff of fete!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 Hampshire and the south east of the Isle of Wight. Listen to find out how these threads weave their way into our topical chat.
Sport, holidays, petting cafes and island hotspots sha...
2024-09-281h 02QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 15 (S2) - When Wednesday comes ...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. with a crowd of 447 turning out for this Wessex League Cup clash. Fellow travellers in the Wessex League Division 1 they will meet again on Boxing Day in what is likely to be an...
2024-08-3123 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 14 (2) - The one that got delayedThe 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 Scottish confectionary, almost within the same breath?
The answer, of course, is right here on QWightLike A Podcast. Listen in as Rory and Tim procrastinate on the best coffee, humourless politicians and the...
2024-08-171h 07QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 13 (S2) - Monarch speaks and host squeaksThe 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 to scrunch or fold. Listen in to find out the context of that one.
Visitors to our island and agricultural shows compete for a slice of your ear’s capacity...
2024-07-201h 08QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 12 (S2)- Election Special 2024 - 24 hours in 2024Our 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 momentous impact on all our lives.
Fast forward 24 hours to the post-results, after-party come down to find out if our intrepid duo are motivated by the outcome and what highlights do we pic...
2024-07-061h 29QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 11 (S2) - Chat bought to cover elections and pitchesThe 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 bet on the date of the next episode of QWightLike A Podcast, we meander from national service, along the A34, to holstering IT equipment via a festival of place names you can’...
2024-06-221h 03QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 10 (S2) - The boys are back in townNormal 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 enforced pod downtime. What has happened whilst we were looking the other way?
The aurora, The UK Pink Floyd Experience, surgical waiting list reduction, holiday trips and new eatery e...
2024-06-081h 22QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 9 (S2) - Smartly casual chat dressed up to impressFashion 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 Wight) before an attack of the mangoes brings us back to the modern day and our best recommendations for chilling with a Netflix binge watch.
Visitors, colleagues and political shenanigans all rear their head in...
2024-04-2759 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 8 - Fishing for complementary chatWelcome 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 shaped much of the Ventnor experience for visitors and residents alike. Tim spends time with Ed Blake of the fishing dynasty that continue to ply their trade at se...
2024-04-131h 11QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 7 - Happy and glorious. Travels, tourists, and topical talesAnother 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.
Football (soccer) shirt emblems, excessive language dependencies are covered alongside explanations of European nations’ mastery of the English language rendering our preparations for overseas travels to be limited to checking our passport validity and packing.
2024-03-3058 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 6 (S2) - Slipping into festivals, days out and making a meal of it.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 and chinese chip shops alongside the delights of island favourites such as The Garlic Farm for brunch and the Spyglass Inn for celebration meals.
As the general...
2024-03-161h 05QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 5 (S2) - Out (often) and (talking) about (lots)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 subjects, educational and otherwise.
From smashed avocado breakfasts and millennial lattes to retired radio contributors (retiring just as demand for radio presenters on the island is set to increase), there's something in here for...
2024-03-0258 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 4 (S2) - Green pleas and our arts inspiredA 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 politician and councillor right through to her thespian activities with the Apollo Theatre in Newport and her geology walks.
Tim and Rory bookend this fascinating insight into the mot...
2024-02-171h 05QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 3 (S2) - Duel of the south!
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 our landscape, to our tourism, to our very identity as islanders? What will we leave Alan Titchmarsh to wax lyrically about as high definition drones...
2024-02-0349 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 2 (S2) - Shaken or stirred? Top spots for a coffee stop.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 see we had a plan, and we saw it through.
We consider the great philosophical questions of our time including whether printed books are preferential to digital copies, whilsht teaching you...
2024-01-2050 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 1 (S2). Ferry gliding into a happy new series (and year).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 low for the second part of the holiday period? Listen to find out.
With travel being such an important part of our island lifestyle, we were delighted when Tim...
2024-01-061h 13QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 25. Christmas Special. A year in podcast.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 mince pies we reminisce on our favourite TV adverts, favourite food and how we'll be celebrating this holiday season with our families.
Thanks for listening throughout 2023. We've...
2023-12-231h 02QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 24. Banquets, beer, and bumpy crossingsWith 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 director of our major island brewer, Goddards. An honest conversation about the brewery being up for sale, hopes for the future ownership and potential for future growth in the offer is had and...
2023-12-0957 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 23. Deaths, throws, and winter snowsDeaths 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, The Pogues, just before they become famous.
Rory continues to bemoan that he is being made to throw stuff out (Ed . you mean recycle) that he has carefully curated for much of his...
2023-12-021h 05QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 22. Beliefs and conspiratorial elegance.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-ranging media coverage including an appearance on BBC3's new series 'Paranormal: The Girl, the Ghost and the Gravestone'.
Tim’s off-island adventures and Rory’s lifetime of collected memories choking his living space are...
2023-11-251h 08QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 21. Sufficiently authenticAnother 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 seeking elected office and in particular, the burning issues of the day for an Isle of Wight politician. Meeting in Newport's Caffe Isola the guys enjoy a convivial chat in very...
2023-11-181h 30QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 20. In Tim we trust ... plus superfans, fireworks & Christmas lunchAs 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 loyal, podcast superfans, Polly from Oxford (via Aldershot), to discuss the draw of the island and what can be considered to improve the visitor experience and how our podcast encouraged...
2023-11-111h 04QWightLike. A Podcast.Epsiode 19. Nature's gift of carefully nurtured chatEpisode 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 Biss, Chief Executive of Gift to Nature https://www.gifttonature.org.uk/. Graham should be known as Mr Benn as he wears so many hats in different roles supporting the...
2023-11-041h 13QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 18. Halloween dissection and collected other horrorsTim and Rory offer carve out another hour of spooky tales and harvest yet more topical talk to deliver a hollowed out husk of a podcast stuff full of hallowed subjects. From Penny's Poundland coronation frock to Rory's flirting at the coffee shop, via Tim's missing MP. Where is Doctor Bob and will Scoop Dedman get his man this side of an election?
Enjoy another wide-ranging chat as our intrepid duo battle variously with brambles, bindweed (convolvulus) and ivy and dream of bus-based-beer-bonanzas whilst reporting on terrific tea shop stops.
Sit with us, walk with...
2023-10-211h 13QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 17. QWightLike surfs the Vectis airwaves!
Tim and Rory get back in the hot seat after the holiday special of episode 16 and get right into interview mode this time in the guest seats having been invited to chat with Ian Mac (Macca) of Vectis Radio on his mid-morning show. We really enjoyed meeting Macca and radio certainly thrilled these podcast "stars". We bring you the whole interview in this episode with plenty of chat about how we plan to collaborate in the future bringing great stories and interviews from across the island to both sets of listeners, on radio and podcast.Coffee highlights and...
2023-10-071h 12QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 16. Tactical holidays, strategic voting and a local (radio) hero!Our holiday special edition is here without delay, or diversion, and only one natural disaster to interfere with our perfectly laid plans. We pre-recorded the bulk of this episode so we could simply get it stitched together with some small additions post-holiday and all went to plan bar the content from Rory's break in Crete. Tim provides some enjoyable commentary on his break with wife Ella to the Belgian North Sea coast and entices the rest of us to visit with tales of culture, food and innovative transportation. Rory's Sea of Crete would have raised the temperature a few...
2023-09-3044 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 15. The fine art of street art ... and other musingsJoin Tim and Rory for another meander around all things Wight, with an added dash of worldly observations and heaps of holiday helpings to come. Our special guest this week, is Tony Trowbridge, renowned Sandown-based street and pop artist, who is most definitely not dead yet. Tim takes time to trawl through Tony's fascinating life in an interview well worth a listen if you love popular art and/or the island.
The regular podcast chummy chat bookends the Tony interview and covers festivals, lighthouse photography, exercise for healthy recovery and quality of life and the occasional mention...
2023-09-021h 21QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 14. Ambulance heroes and ... farmer cuticles!Another very special guest graces the virtual QWightLike A Podcast studio as Tim spends time chatting with Victoria White, head of the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service. Tim recently experienced their professionalism, dedication and daily heroism, for himself (see our episode 11) and wanted to have the opportunity to find out first hand what makes the organisation function so well and where is Victoria seeking improvements for an ever more complex and demanding future. We bookend Tim's interview with our usual mix of topical chat and island highlights, that we both, well qwight like!!!
From apple scrumping on...
2023-08-191h 18QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 13 - Turning the tables on island podcast royaltyLucky episode 13 is now available, and QWightLike A Podcast is now cemented in the podcasting fixture list for as long as we have something to say and someone to talk to. As is the case with this exciting instalment where we have secured one of the first interviews, if not THE first interview for island podcast royalty, Harriet Hadfield, to put herself in front of the microphone for a compelling conversation with our very own Tim Dedman. Harriet presents Island Stories revealing the characters and personalities, who live or who’ve settled on the Isle of Wight, in a po...
2023-08-051h 19QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 12. News, views and brewsA quick episode to get back on schedule, following the technical challenges we overcame in episode 11, subsequently turned into our longest offering yet. Judicious post-production editing removed a few seconds of grunts and scrapes but left in all the topical chat, news views and this episode's special guest is Andrew Todd, of Drews Brews to be found regularly (Wednesday to Sunday) at Firestone Copse and often at other events around the island, serving the finest coffee and home made cakes. Tim finds out what makes Drew's business successful in no small part due to his past hospitality experience, giving...
2023-07-221h 24QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 11. A good bash at middle age.Tim and Rory have prepared a special episode of the podcast for those who love a good story, topical chat and the Isle of Wight. On 22nd June Tim suffered a heart attack and this podcast covers the experience, reflections and resolutions.
As Tim is under strict instructions to limit activity, the podcast studio went on the road to Tim's man cave in Rookley, only for the audio to be plagued by electrical interference only discovered when Rory ("the engineer") returned home to start post-production.
A frantic period ensued attemptin audio repairs until Rory determined...
2023-07-151h 14QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 10. Born in the museumAs we roll effortlessly into double digit number of episodes, Tim and Rory, your very own museum pieces, tackle heatwave hysteria, festival frolics, breakfast banter and engage brains for a cost of living discussion that evaluates a new economic theory, donut economics, that does not involve Homer Simpson's bakery item of choice.
Tactics for surviving the Council's designer dumps are discussed alongside a breakdown of our island MP's unfortunate brush with moving pictures that can be played back at you live on air to challenge your poor recollection of what you did or didn't say on the...
2023-06-241h 17QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 9. Crash test undertakersA further week away from the podcast studio brings tales from Tim's travels tinged with telling toilet tales and topical tittle tattle.
Travel advice is offered from the pocket pat down to how to be chatted up by French museum ticket sales staff. This official QWightLike travel advice notice explains what not to have in your suitcase to avoid a strip search by US Border Force staff.
For the less squeamish we have another fascinating interview from our roving reporter, Tim who spent time with Kerry from The Seapot at Wheeler's Bay, between Ventnor and...
2023-06-101h 03QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 8. Row, row, row your boat ...Another topical chat-filled extravaganza steers towards your favourite podcast port of call with a cargo of our usual island views, foodie findings and with a special buzz emanating from the podcast studio (no not interference!), as our second outside broadcast interview with Ventnor’s formidable Paul Berry takes to the air waves.
Paul is one third of the island crew preparing to take on the World’s Toughest Row, The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge starting on the 12th December 2023 as part of the Mermaid Atlantic 2023 team rowing from the Canary Isles to the Caribbean. Our intrepid, roving repo...
2023-05-201h 14QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 7. Real ales and real peopleTim and Rory wax lyrically on steam powered real ale where the porters are fruit-based and the plum festival ale is … well … listen to find out. We veer from brief encounters to national news bulletins and get out of our studio to meet interesting new people and learn what makes them tick and let them talk about their projects, passions and plans. First up, and our crowning glory this week, is Kirsty from Ventnor’s Better Days Cafe, holding an inspiring conversation with our roving reporter, Tim, in our inaugural feature interview. Kirsty and her team are doing stellar work w...
2023-05-061h 04QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 6. All the world's a stage ... for our podcast!
Tim and Rory resume normal service following an extra week of enforced banishment from the QWightLike A Podcast studio. What have we been up to? Tune in to find out. Spoiler: we find ourselves discussing performances ranging from primary school drama forays, hormone-fuelled teenage dance dreams and we end up waxing lyrical about the many stages, natural and thespian, offered by the Isle of Wight. From tributes to our musical heroes, to a botanical paradise, and further breakfast bliss, we pull back the curtain on experiences we have enjoyed, treading boards and beach bars to bring you entertainment, thirst-quenching topi...
2023-04-221h 05QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 5. IOW served on TV and on a plateWe present, episode 5 of our growing podcast, following an extra week off air, and we jump straight to the medium of television to discuss the recent swamping of our screens with Isle of Wight focussed programming. We cover Channel 5's Isle of Wight: Jewel of the South, a homage to the people and places of the island, as well as BBC2’s The Cockfields, a sitcom set on the Isle of Wight and making use of beautiful locations and laugh-out-loud family situations that we can all relate to, served up by a familiar, but still stellar, cast.
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2023-04-0156 min
QWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 4. So … the blokeratti embrace #IWD with real ale tales and steam rail trails!What’s an episode for? Listening to and being challenged by the views of others, maybe educated a little, and, of course, to enjoy the silky smooth musings and island-linked distractions of a couple of old blokes. So, please enjoy our very own episode four (do you see what we did there?) of the latest podcast brought to you from the glistening shores of the Isle of Wight.
Rory and Tim celebrate International Womens’ Day #IWD, not to be confused with Isle of Wight Day #IWD, whilst reviewing listener statistics for our first 3 episodes and make a bid for...
2023-03-1150 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 3. Islands, Highlands and landslips. Topical chat that lands this week's catchy musings.Sit back, relax and unwind as Rory and Tim ease you through a fact-filled pod, casting our net never too far from the Isle of Wight which, remember, we quite like, without contriving a dubious Wight link (!) to bring us all back to our island home.
Find out what connects Glasgow's Nicola Sturgeon (c.2023) to Carisbrooke's Isabella de Fortibus (c.1293) and discover if Tim can get hold of all the ingredients he needs for this week's soup. Is our topical chat a recipe to have rotten tomatoes hurled at us (if they stay on the shelves long en...
2023-02-2555 minQWightLike. A Podcast.Episode 2. Getting off the island and sometimes, the pointWell, we made it to a second episode ... and it says here ... back by popular demand.
In our eagerly anticipated follow-up episode, Tim and Rory talk about off-island trips and returning ferry travails interspersed with the glamour of Los Angeles mingling with the blood, sweat and tears, for some, of Twickenham. Tune in to catch up on English Heritage ketchup, the mystery pop opening and for updates on the great cooked breakfast with Ventnor and London twists.
We celebrate our favourite Isle of Wight podcasts from Harriet Hadfield and Benjamin Hope (links below) and provide a...
2023-02-1147 minQWightLike. A Podcast.QWightLike. A Podcast. Pilot episode.We quite like a podcast and we quite like the Isle of Wight, where we live.
So please say hello to QWightLike. A Podcast, and enjoy the pilot episode of our new, soon to be regular, riff on a range of subjects that resonate on and from the island including food, drink, music, art, culture, news, politics, life the universe and everything in between.
For this first episode we introduce ourselves as your co-hosts, Rory Forbes and Tim Dedman, both long time Wightphiles and now permanent residents. We cover our personal journeys to, and occasionally fro...
2023-01-2642 min