Display Properties > Appearance > Font Size > Large Fonts was what I was thinking of... Could also be a display accelerator issue.
If you keep hit tab then focus eventually runs across the top of the Podcasts window, highlighting "Unplayed", My Podcasts", "My Stations" and, if enabled, "List". Tap it again and the next controls are:
"Sync podcast subscripts, settings and stations" and
"Automatically download new episodes for your subscriptions"
These are enabled by default. I recommend you press tab, then space, twice to select and then disable each of them, then press tab and enter to action the "Continue" button. You can set things up the way you want in preferences later but make sure you understand the potential drawbacks of enabling sync before you do so.
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