Podcast app in ios7 will only play one episode at a time

The only option is to make a playlist, however, why make a playlist for something I will only listen to once? New episodes are not automaticaly added to playlists. Why dont all the episodes of each podcast already behave like a playlist?

I often wait till there are 5-6 episodes of my favorite shorter podcasts and listen to them all together during my commute. Restarting the app just to start the next episode is a terrible distraction while driving.

Can you please fix it so it starts the next episode automacially? Podcast management is/was my favorite thing about apple. Now you broke it.

Perhaps fix it so that it works like it used to when podcasts worked in the regular iTunes music app?