diff --git a/client/components/tables/podcast/EpisodeTableRow.vue b/client/components/tables/podcast/EpisodeTableRow.vue
index 4f8edf58..da71524f 100644
--- a/client/components/tables/podcast/EpisodeTableRow.vue
+++ b/client/components/tables/podcast/EpisodeTableRow.vue
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@
         <p class="text-sm font-semibold">
           {{ title }}
         </p>
-        <p class="text-sm text-gray-200 episode-subtitle mt-1.5 mb-0.5">
-          {{ description }}
-        </p>
+        <p class="text-sm text-gray-200 episode-subtitle mt-1.5 mb-0.5">{{ description }}</p>
         <div class="flex items-center pt-2">
           <div class="h-8 px-4 border border-white border-opacity-20 hover:bg-white hover:bg-opacity-10 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center cursor-pointer" :class="userIsFinished ? 'text-white text-opacity-40' : ''" @click="playClick">
             <span class="material-icons" :class="streamIsPlaying ? '' : 'text-success'">{{ streamIsPlaying ? 'pause' : 'play_arrow' }}</span>
diff --git a/server/objects/PlaybackSession.js b/server/objects/PlaybackSession.js
index 59e66b46..34311928 100644
--- a/server/objects/PlaybackSession.js
+++ b/server/objects/PlaybackSession.js
@@ -136,9 +136,14 @@ class PlaybackSession {
     this.mediaMetadata = libraryItem.media.metadata.clone()
     this.chapters = (libraryItem.media.chapters || []).map(c => ({ ...c })) // Only book mediaType has chapters
     this.displayTitle = libraryItem.media.getPlaybackTitle(episodeId)
-    this.displayAuthor = libraryItem.media.getPlaybackAuthor(episodeId)
+    this.displayAuthor = libraryItem.media.getPlaybackAuthor()
     this.coverPath = libraryItem.media.coverPath
-    this.duration = libraryItem.media.duration
+
+    if (episodeId) {
+      this.duration = libraryItem.media.getEpisodeDuration(episodeId)
+    } else {
+      this.duration = libraryItem.media.duration
+    }
 
     this.mediaPlayer = mediaPlayer
 
diff --git a/server/objects/entities/PodcastEpisode.js b/server/objects/entities/PodcastEpisode.js
index 83cd15d2..6c6b956b 100644
--- a/server/objects/entities/PodcastEpisode.js
+++ b/server/objects/entities/PodcastEpisode.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+const { stripHtml } = require('string-strip-html')
 const { getId } = require('../../utils/index')
 const AudioFile = require('../files/AudioFile')
 const AudioTrack = require('../files/AudioTrack')
@@ -73,7 +74,8 @@ class PodcastEpisode {
       episodeType: this.episodeType,
       title: this.title,
       subtitle: this.subtitle,
-      description: this.description,
+      // description: this.description,
+      description: this.descriptionPlain, // Temporary stripping HTML until proper cleaning is implemented
       enclosure: this.enclosure ? { ...this.enclosure } : null,
       pubDate: this.pubDate,
       audioFile: this.audioFile.toJSON(),
@@ -102,6 +104,10 @@ class PodcastEpisode {
     if (this.episode) return `${this.episode} - ${this.title}`
     return this.title
   }
+  get descriptionPlain() {
+    if (!this.description) return ''
+    return stripHtml(this.description).result
+  }
 
   setData(data, index = 1) {
     this.id = getId('ep')
diff --git a/server/objects/mediaTypes/Podcast.js b/server/objects/mediaTypes/Podcast.js
index b9a1be0e..fd62a4f2 100644
--- a/server/objects/mediaTypes/Podcast.js
+++ b/server/objects/mediaTypes/Podcast.js
@@ -251,5 +251,11 @@ class Podcast {
   getPlaybackAuthor() {
     return this.metadata.author
   }
+
+  getEpisodeDuration(episodeId) {
+    var episode = this.episodes.find(ep => ep.id == episodeId)
+    if (!episode) return 0
+    return episode.duration
+  }
 }
 module.exports = Podcast
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/utils/podcastUtils.js b/server/utils/podcastUtils.js
index a0869c81..69cc2459 100644
--- a/server/utils/podcastUtils.js
+++ b/server/utils/podcastUtils.js
@@ -73,12 +73,19 @@ function extractEpisodeData(item) {
     Logger.error(`[podcastUtils] Invalid podcast episode data`)
     return null
   }
-  var arrayFields = ['title', 'pubDate', 'description', 'itunes:episodeType', 'itunes:episode', 'itunes:author', 'itunes:duration', 'itunes:explicit', 'itunes:subtitle']
+
   var episode = {
     enclosure: {
       ...item.enclosure[0]['$']
     }
   }
+
+  if (item['description']) {
+    episode.description = extractFirstArrayItem(item, 'description')
+    episode.descriptionPlain = stripHtml(episode.description || '').result
+  }
+
+  var arrayFields = ['title', 'pubDate', 'itunes:episodeType', 'itunes:episode', 'itunes:author', 'itunes:duration', 'itunes:explicit', 'itunes:subtitle']
   arrayFields.forEach((key) => {
     var cleanKey = key.split(':').pop()
     episode[cleanKey] = extractFirstArrayItem(item, key)
@@ -91,6 +98,7 @@ function cleanEpisodeData(data) {
     title: data.title,
     subtitle: data.subtitle || '',
     description: data.description || '',
+    descriptionPlain: data.descriptionPlain || '',
     pubDate: data.pubDate || '',
     episodeType: data.episodeType || '',
     episode: data.episode || '',