Podcast showing zero episodes in iTunes

I have a podcast feed (being created with the Blubrry Powerpress plugin for Wordpress) that is showing zero episodes in iTunes, despite the fact that it's a valid RSS feed. The feed can be found here: http://podcast.christnc.com/feed/podcast/
I also tried doing publishing this feed (http://christnc.com/category/podcast/feed/), which worked for a short time, but then showed zero episodes as well. Can anyone spot the problem?

I'm not sure how well iTunes copes with 301 redirects - I've see it both work and not work. The correct procedure is detailed here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#changing
but this requires you to be able to add a tag to the feed. As iTunes evidently isn't able to read the feed this isn't going to work. I think all you can do is try the redirect and see what happens: this is the problem with services like Blogger, in that you have no control over the feed or its URL.
You can check the feed which is being used by iTunes by subscribing (from the 'Subscribe Free' button on the Store page) and then going to the 'Podcasts' section in the iTunes sidebar and control-clicking (Mac) or right-clicking (Windows) the podcast line (not that for an episode) and choosing 'Copy podcast URL'.

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