My podcast episode descriptions have disappeared...

I've consulted several websites and I can't find the error in my XML file.
podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/30-000-kilohertz-of-sound/id299700719?mt=2
xml file: http://30000khz.com/rss.xml
Using this code under each item:
<itunes:summary>Eden Gauteron, Emlyn McFarland, Michael McFarland and Shawn Wickens use music to inspire scenes LIVE at Baltimore Improv Group.</itunes:summary>
<description>Eden Gauteron, Emlyn McFarland, Michael McFarland and Shawn Wickens use music to inspire scenes LIVE at Baltimore Improv Group.</description>
thx!

They appear in the Store page within iTunes but not on the web page: I can only suppose that it's some sort of glitch. Your feed appears to be OK except that the latest episode has no 'itunes:summary' tag so the Store appears to have been using the 'description' tag (which it doesn't normally use).

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