My feelings about permission have undergone a shift lately and I'm coming down on the side of the reader now. If there's no way you can get permission, *especially* when it's anon, then I say go for it.

I guess the part that I *am* questioning is do we (as readers) need to acknowledge that lack of permission in the podfic post? I think I'm going to have a similar non permission issue soon and I'm of two minds about whether I should explicitly mention it or not.