Playing Podcasts - Is Last Always First?

On my iPod Classic, podcasts are listed by date with the most recent one first. Podcasts are played sequentially in the order they are listed. This means that if I start playing podcasts from the top of the list, the newest one plays first, followed by the next earlier one, etc. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to play podcasts in chronological order - i.e., oldest first. The only way I can do this is to scroll to the bottom of the list, play the oldest podcast, then manually back up to the previous one in the list (which is next one chronologically), play that podcast, and so on. Is there no way to make the iPod play podcasts in chronological order?
(Also, the listing of podcasts on the iPod is independent of the way they are listed within iTunes.)

Unfortunately, that's the way the iPod Classic seems to behave. There have been posts about this before, but I suspect that Apple will not change the way this works on the Classic. (They have on the iPod Touch, although I realise that's not a solution!)
Now, one of the annoying things about this is that when the episode finishes, the next one on the list plays. If this bugs you too, try this: put the iPod in shuffle song/albums mode. (Don't use shuffle on the Main Menu) Go to the *Settings Menu* and turn it on there, or while a song is playing, press the select button three times until the shuffle on/off appears and turn it on there. Once you have Shuffle on, start a Podcast. You'll notice the Podcast now says 1 of 1 instead of 1 of X. When it finishes the iPod will stop.
I believe some people go the the trouble of creating a playlist with the Podcasts in the order they want and then play the playlist. I can't be bothered with that, I admit!
I suspect that Apple had a different idea than Podcast producers when it comes to sorting these Podcasts, because I'm sure I have one series (which I now cannot find since I have so many) which does list and play episodes in chronological order. Trouble is, now that Apple have changed this on the Touch, that series is in the wrong order!
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