Why are subscribed podcasts appearing more than once on my iPod touch 5g? After c. 5 years, I 'upgraded' from a 3g touch to a 5g model. I soon noticed that the list of podcasts shown on the iPod was getting longer and longer. There were at least 3 copies of each podcast source in the list.

I'm on iOS 8.4.1 and I just deleted all the podcasts from the iPod and then also from my iTunes and resubscribed to the podcasts I regularly hear.

It's only been a few days but the iPod now shows 2 copies of each subscribed podcast.

Is there anyone who can explain to a simple software engineer what I might be doing wrong? After all I'm not new to the iPod but I cannot figure out what's going wrong here.
I had this issue with multiple copies podcasts on iOS 8.

The new version on iOS 9 seems to have fixed this if you also make sure the podcast is subscribed on both iOS and iTunes.

The alternative is downcast to old iOS which had podcasts as part of Music as that worked perfectly for me.