Sigh. The content of the ABC Radio Nation PM is exceptional - well considered reporting that blends Australian and international news. Unfortunately all this good effort is completely spoiled by remarkably inept podcast broadcasting. It seems there is some sort of prediliction towards splitting what is a single broadcast into each of the stories. I understand there may be some listeners who prefer a per-story broadcast, although for me, a single file to be downloaded is much easier to deal with and it's easier to see if I've heard the entire broadcast, rather than searching the dates of each story to see if I've heard all of it. To make matters dramatically worse, the ABC have somehow decided that blending a full broadcast, individual stories and the business news all into one stream is a bright idea! This is remarkably stupid, it makes automating retrieval almost impossible - it now requires digging through a list of broadcasts to find which are the full programs and which are the individual broadcasts. Gosh, this isn't that hard people: create one podcast for the combined programme, and one for the individual stories. This is no more effort than what is done now, and probably more automatable for the production side. Then provide two links.
