My Touch only plays single files in a podcast

I have a bunch of pod casts downloading but my iPod will not go onto the next cast in the directory no matter what I do. As far as I can tell the circle / twisted arrows do not do anything whether blue or not, with a 1 on or not, despite what the manual says.
I can only get the device to play more than one cast at a time if I put them all in a Playlist at which point it all works fine. This is very annoying, especially as I bought it to use when driving and cannot therefore select tracks and press play and I really didn't want to spend time every evening putting new podcasts into playlists. There appears to be no way to automate this so dead end there too.
As far as I can tell it should happily play one cast after the other, and I'm sure it did use to do this. Its running 1.1.3 with the Jan update and I've done the off and on again thing....
If anyone can help that would be really useful

The podcast handling is odd. I like to listen oldest to newest but the Touch (and my old 5th gen) list newest first.
The way I get round this is similar to your playlist route, but with a smart playlist. I have set up a smart playlist with these filters:
play count is 0
podcast is true
date added is in last 1 month
live updating
I then set the sort order to be oldest first by clicking the Dated Added column.
Select this playlist in the iPod device Music section of iTunes.
Now at least with firmware v1.1.3 the played counter of tracks played using a smart playlist gets passed back to iTunes during the sync. So the playlist will refresh itself with unlistened podcasts and removed listened ones.
Paul

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