RSS feed: Invalid XML

Hello everyone.
I want to submit my podcast to iTunes, but I have a problem with the XML file.
Feed Validator said to me:
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
line 1, column 0: XML parsing error: <unknown>:1:0: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1036{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset ...
Source: http://*********/RSS.xml
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1036{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Verdana;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Calibri;}}
{\colortbl ;\red68\green68\blue68;}
For more details, here is the XML file.
I really hope you guys well be able to help me.

You appear to have created your feed in a word processing program: it's full of formatting codes such as \par, and the opening couple of lines are full of garbage: the required xml declaration is missing.
This page includes a sample basic feed so you can see what one should look like: your feed must be plain text.
http://rfwilmut.net/pc

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