Isle of Man Newspapers has a new edition to its podcasting stable.

Following tentatively in the sound waves of the sports desks’ near-world famous Manx Football Podcast comes the brand-spanking new Isle of Man News Podcast.

Featuring Andy Dalrymple, Jess Ward, Sam Turton and Katie Kitchener, the weekly half-hour episodes aim to give you a taster of some of the news that has been hitting the headlines in the island that week.

There’s been eight episodes so far drawing such reviews as: ’Fine’, ’Better than I expected’ and ’Not another chuffin podcast’.

This week’s episode has a strong ’B’ theme with bonnag, bees and Bros all featured.

If that wasn’t enough excitement, the latest podcast discusses whether medicinal cannabis should be legalised and asks ’What would your perfect weekend in the Isle of Man be?’

For history fans, there is also the ’This Week in History feature’, which looks back to the Courier front page of March 1, 1991.

Search ’Isle of Man Newspapers Podcast’ on iTunes or Spotify or simply head to http://audioboom.com/channel/iomnewspodcast to listen to the whole back catalogue.