Podcasts Play Automatically - Why?

I hate that since the last update, when a podcast episode finishes playing, it starts the next episode automatically.
How do I stop this? Ive turned off shuffle and the other thing that loops.

I agree this is a problem for me as well - not only the fact that it plays the next episode, but the default sort order is from newest to oldest.
I listen to podcasts in chronological order, and therefor as a show ends it starts playing the previously aired (older datetime stamp) than the one I just listened to.
Is their some way to either:
- Turn off the "auto play next podcast"; or
- Change the sort order of the podcasts from oldest to newest (not I have it sorted this way in iTunes but the setting doesn't transfer - same issue as the ipod 5G).

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