Restoring deleted podcasts from the trash

Hello,
I made a big boo-boo. I was deleting some old episodes from one of my podcasts and accidentally deleted not just those episodes from that podcast but also entire podcasts.
All of the files are still in the trash. I'm hoping that there is some way that I can restore the podcasts and their episodes to my iTunes Library from the trash.
Thanks for any help,
Jay

Hi Limnos,
Thanks for offering your suggestion. Rather than messing with the podcast files in the trash and possibly causing more harm by manually moving those files around (I learned my lesson years ago to let iTunes manage the files in the library), I decided to re-subscribe to the missing podcasts and re-downloading their episodes. Maybe I'm being chicken, but I just didn't want a bigger mess on my hands.
Thanks for the help!

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