Tom Noga’s Podcasts
All podcast series and long-form audio productions by Tom Noga in one place: documentary series, audio features, radio plays, remasters and director’s cuts, as well as newly edited and updated versions of earlier productions, spanning diffrent periods, formats and approaches to storytelling.
Highway of Dreams – 100 Years of Route 66
For more than a hundred years, Route 66 has been more than just a road. It is a promise, a fracture line, and a stage on which America has constantly reinvented itself. This documentary podcast series travels along the historic Route 66 from Chicago to the Pacific — not as a nostalgic road trip, but as a long-form audio documentary exploring ideas, myths, and contradictions. Along the way, it listens to voices from the roadside and from history: stories of migration and exclusion, ambition and failure, dreams built and dreams put on display. From the rise of the American Heartland to the legacy of Manifest Destiny, from Indigenous histories to today’s political fault lines, Route 66 becomes a narrative non-fiction audio lens through which the past and present of the United States are reflected — and questioned.
Maradona – Myth & Reality
He came from the margins and never quite fit into the world of the powerful and the polished.
Diego Maradona was brilliance and contradiction in the same body — adored by the poor, scrutinized by the powerful, consumed by the spotlight. When he touched the ball with his left foot, the game opened up — as if football itself had gained another dimension — beautiful beyond logic. Off the pitch, he broke under the weight of expectation.
Genius, loyalty, excess — and a man who never quite stopped being the boy from Villa Fiorito. A documentary podcast about football, power, and the cost of becoming a symbol.
Que Beleza – Tim Maia, the wild king of Brazilian Soul
Every Brazilian knows the voice. Even those who don’t know his story know his songs.
Tim Maia was the king of Brazilian soul, a musical genius whose voice, charisma and excesses made him one of the most unforgettable figures in Latin American music. Blending soul, funk and Brazilian rhythms, he helped change the sound of a nation and inspired generations of artists.
At the height of his fame, Tim Maia made a decision that shocked Brazil. Drawn into the mysterious sect, he abandoned longtime friends, rewrote his music and walked away from the success he had spent years building
In this special two-part podcast series, musicians, friends and eyewitnesses revisit the life of a larger-than-life performer whose career was marked by extraordinary success, controversy, reinvention and chaos.
Through personal memories, remarkable stories, rare archive material and Tim Maia’s own words, this podcast reveals the man behind the legend.
A journey through the rise of a superstar and the transformation of an artist who changed Brazilian music forever.
Oscar Niemeyer – The man who shaped Brazil
He drew his lines against gravity and never quite followed the rules of the rigid and the rational. Oscar Niemeyer was vision and defiance in the same body, celebrated by presidents, embraced by workers, always guided by the idea that architecture could be free, sensual, and human. When he sketched a curve, the city seemed to shift, as if concrete itself had learned to breathe, elegant beyond calculation.
In Brasília, he gave form to a future that was both utopian and political, monuments rising like symbols of belief as much as power. Yet behind the grand designs was a man shaped by exile, conviction, and a lifelong commitment to ideals that often stood in tension with the systems that commissioned him.
A storyteller in concrete, balancing beauty, ideology, and ambition — and a man who never stopped believing that the world could be redesigned.
A documentary podcast about architecture, power, and the price of shaping a vision.
Saint Lucia
The People Behind A Caribbean Paradise
This podcast travels across Saint Lucia, from the bustling streets of Castries and the island’s vibrant music festival to remote fishing villages along the west coast. Along the way, we meet fishermen, chefs, politicians, musicians and local residents whose stories reveal the true character of the island.
Between dream and trauma
Journey through South America
South America is a continent of dreams: breathtaking, vibrant, sensual. But also a continent of trauma: forgotten by the world, scarred, haunted by violence. A continent of contradictions. Where reality is not always what it seems—or what one experiences.
It is between these poles that the stories in this series unfold. Stories that only South America can tell.
Season 1
We take a tour through Medellín, tracing the footsteps of the legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar. Along Ecuador’s coastline, we search for the origins of the Panama hat — which, in fact, doesn’t come from Panama at all, but from the town of Montecristi in Ecuador. We visit the German-Austrian village of Pozuzo, hidden deep in Peru’s cloud forest far from any major roads. Together with a former dissident, we explore Chile’s own 9/11 — the fall of Salvador Allende and the beginning of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship. And in Brazil, we travel to Fordlândia, a settlement carved out of the Amazon by carmaker Henry Ford as his vision of a future metropolis.