"This feed has no episodes", but feed is 100% valid.

I'm trying to help a voluntary grou submit their podcast to iTunes.
The original XML was a mess, the system they inherited is unsupported now (to answer all the obvious upcoming questions!).
So, I rewrote and tidied the XML, it is 100% valid according to every feed validation thing I can find, and it plays fine in everything else.
But iTunes and iTunes store doesn't seem to like it, because the audio is served from a directory, eg:
http://www.essexinfo.net/wickfordtn/assets/audio/weekly-news-side1
and not
http://www.essexinfo.net/wickfordtn/assets/audio/weekly-news-side1/something.mp3
The filetype is being served correctly, as you can see from http://web-sniffer.net/
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Content-Length: 5309578
So the question is - how to get this into iTunes? Until they can get their server sorted, the only thing I could think would be to write the xml as a pointer to my own server, put an htaccess redirect in their, to make it think it's a proper filename.
The thing is, this is all voluntary, and I don't really want to be jumping through those kind of hoops if I can at all avoid it.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Jonathan at TNS

Your feed has no media files referenced. These need to be in an 'enclosure' tag within the 'item'...'/item' tags which define each episode. With no media files referenced iTunes will not accept your podcast nor display it on manual subscription.
As you are using Feedburner, either you are writing a feed yourself and submitting it to Feedburner, or you are submitting information to Feedburner and having it write the feed. In the latter case you need to add some media files according to their instructions. In the former case you may find this page helpful as it shows you a basic feed so you can see what it should look like (it's for audio but the general principle is the same).
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/pc

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