Podcast episodes listed backwards

I have submitted my podcast to iTunes and I was very happy to know that I have been approved to have my podcast added to iTunes. When I found my podcast in iTunes I realised that the episodes that I have in the store are in reverse order, ie. episode 1 is episode 4 etc. I have used blogger to post my audio files and have used Feedburner to create the feed link. Is there anything that I can do to make it so that episode 1 is episode 1 and that every episode that follows is in order of its creation?
links to my feed and podcast are here.
https://itunes.apple.com/ae/podcast/the-techcast/id892041886
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thetechcast1

Hey there!
It looks like your podcasts are listed backwards in the iTunes Store. Here is the information you need to get those sorted correctly from the following article:
Working with iTunes
https://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#order
The order in which the episodes appear is based on the <pubDate> for each item, with the most recent episodes appearing at the top of the list. You can override the <pubDate> using the <itunes:order> tag.
<itunes:order>
This tag can be used to override the default ordering of episodes on the store.
This tag is used at an <item> level by populating with the number value in which you would like the episode to appear on the store. For example, if you would like an <item> to appear as the first episode in the podcast, you would populate the <itunes:order> tag with “1”. If conflicting order values are present in multiple episodes, the store will use default ordering (pubDate).
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Regards,
Sterling

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