Thanks Dave – but no, I do use posts for my regular feed. Before I publish an episode I share it with the interviewee, to seek their approval, and for this I have used password-protected Pages (too good effect). I use Pages, intentionally, so they do not appear in the feed. Until last month, the Podcast episode editing block appeared at the bottom of the page. It doesn’t any longer, which is odd, as when you update the Page, the Podcast media player appears. I can show you an example of the front end of such a page – to this I have added the WP audio player at the bottom of the page, as a work around.
The media player beneath the image appears, although not appearing in the back end editing view of the page, so it actually is an audio episode from the previous month.
https://www.talkingwalking.net/unapproved1/. Password: ForApproval1