Cannot download latest podcast episodes

I have subscribed to a couple of BBC podcasts and since then a couple of episodes have been downloaded, but I cannot get the latest episodes. They are greyed out and if I click that little i it tells me there was a problem downloading as I don't have sufficient access privileges.
My iTunes music is on a server volume, but I DO have read and write permissions on the podcast and all sub directories. iTunes runs correctly and it did manage to get the first few episodes, so everything was ok then. I've changed nothing, is there a problem with the latest versions of iTunes?
What can cause iTunes to be unable to download podcasts in this way? Anyone?

Sorted.
But still a bit puzzled.
Since I appeared to OWN the Podcast (and sub)folders, that looked correct and indeed I could create new folders within them, so I had to have write permission. However, I am a member of the Group which is set for ALL the iTunes files and folders but the Podcast folders did not have Group write. This should have been ok as I apparently owned the Podcast folder, but it looks like it was all a bit confused with my server account (with the same name) and so needed the Group write permissions (which should have all been set to write, but sometimes new stuff doesn't get that set automatically).
Anyway, the net result is that with Group write permissions the Podcasts now are downloading. I am just not 100% sure why I needed Group write, but I think it's down to OSX Server's Open Directory flakiness.
If anyone else has such downloading problems, study the Podcast folders' permissions as the problem is almost certainly there and probably not obvious at first glance.

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