Pausing or restarting Podcast downloads?

Is there some way to pause iTunes downloads? Sometimes I need the bandwidth for other tasks and would like to be able to pause or suspend iTunes, without having to close it. Also, if you terminate iTunes during a download, you get a message that the download will have to be restarted the next time the program is run, but I haven't found any way to do that. I have several partial downloads in my Podcast directory and would like to find some way of either continuing (completing) the download, or at least start it again from the beginning.
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