Converting mp3 file to podcast

Is there any way of taking an arbitrary mp3 file (or other audio format) and getting iTunes and iPod to see it as a podcast?
I have mp3 files of lectures that I would like to access as podcasts, although they were not access via podcast feeds.

I have a similar need, and I'd appreciate some additional information -- especially regarding how to "host" my own podcast. In my case (very much like the original post), I have a series of MP3 files that are lectores (sermons, actually). So far, I've put them on my iPod by just adding them to my Music Library. But they're difficult to find, and I'd like the additional advantages of making them "podcasts".
Can anyone provide more detail -- either on simple tools to use (for the XML, or the personal web hosting that was mentioned), or a step-by-step procedure to just take my own MP3s, and make them truly podcasts, so that I can get them not only into iTunes, but onto my iPod, as well?

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