Thanks for this information. Is it right that I have to download podcasts in full in advance to listen to them? I have not been using Popupchinese because I can't get it to work in iTunes or other downloading programs. Is it right that the latest elementary podcast was in December 2012? (I have a premium subscription).

Thanks very much for the user's information on how to get only the lessons. Some kind person at popupchinese sent me a huge file in November but a) I couldn't get it to work in my car, though it should understand MP3s and b) it seemed to consist only of dialogues with no explanation and c) it was a huge file I couldn't navigate around. I now accept that I have to be sitting at my computer to use popupchinese, but presumably I have to go for all the older lessons (no problem). I find the elementary podcasts really good, especially the language explanations, when I can locate one!