November 20th marks half a century since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in Madrid at the age of 82, and to commemorate the occasion, RTVE will be broadcasting a special broadcast from Paso on Wednesday night on the 24-hour channel and La2 channel. … of Meilas, a place that has little to do with the dictator’s death. The building in Sada (La Coruña) is President Franco’s summer residence, and last September the government declared it a place of democratic memory, deeming it a “reference symbol of the dictatorship and center of power” of Francoism.
This broadcast commemorating this, symbolic date A special program will be broadcast on Radio Nacional de España to tell the story of the beginning of the end of Franco’s dictatorship 50 years later. “Memory is Democracy” will be broadcast by Radio 5.
In line with the government’s policy, RTVE has paid special attention to this important day and has announced “50 Years of Revolution”, a package of four documentaries (three produced in-house) to be broadcast throughout November to commemorate the dictator’s death. “La Foto,” “Democracy will not be completed without us,” “Miradas disobedientes,” and “Voladura 76” are the four titles RTVE announced at last Monday’s event. The first two were broadcast on La1 last Wednesday –Screen occupancy rate is 12.4%was the second most watched option of the night, with the rest appearing similarly for the rest of the month.
According to the public body itself, the four audiovisual works aim to show an “unprecedented perspective” of what happened. Their arguments range from questioning whether the last hours of the dictator’s life, that is, Franco’s lifespan, were artificially extended to “.intrigue and tension intrigue» It commemorated the year after the dictator’s death.
In addition to these four broadcasts, the Corporation, in cooperation with the Secretariat of State for Democratic Memory, created by the Executive in 2020 and directly dependent on the Ministry of Ángel Víctor Torres, launched another project named “Land of 6,000 Graves” almost a month ago. To introduce it, La2, 24h and RTVE Play broadcast an informative special program “La noche en 24h”. “The Tombs of the Franco Regime” “addressed the current state of excavations.”
The project consists of a fifth documentary titled “A flor de tierra,” which tells the story of the relatives of republicans who suffered reprisals after the coup d’état and “organized to have them exhumed and brought back to their towns for a dignified burial,” which was broadcast during the special. Civil war graves audiovisual map Five episodes of a podcast entitled “Franco 4.58” reviewing Francoism and how the death of the dictator was told on RNE half a century ago on the night of November 19-20.
The company adapted the theme of the death of a dictator into all formats. Weekly Report, which usually covers current events, will be broadcasting multiple reports this month to commemorate current events. 50th anniversary of Franco’s death.
Meanwhile, in addition to the podcast, public radio has launched a two-chapter documentary miniseries within its program “Documentos RNE.” The first episode, broadcast last Saturday, looked back at the “dismantling of the regime” in Franco’s absence, while the second, unaired episode, focused specifically on “youth and young people” and “attempted to understand and contextualize the resurgence of an idealized vision” of the Franco regime. social media ecosystem».
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Some of the promotional videos for documentaries and reports shown by RTVE
Two weeks ago, it was the RTVE president himself who demonstrated all these efforts before the Senate’s Mixed Committee for the Management of Public Entities. José Pablo López, who was appointed president of the corporation almost a year ago, proudly emphasized that the work on democratic memory has been one of the main lines of action since taking office. He himself announced that public television is also working on a series on asylum, and that he is working on a project to “dismantle the falsehoods that the far right spreads in connection with Francoism and that reach the youngest segments of the population” on the section of its website “Verifica Rtve” dedicated to investigating disinformation.
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The government seized the opportunity to capitalize on this issue from the beginning of this year and raise it on related agendas. The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory created a “Territorial Policy Committee”. Celebrating 50 years of freedom in SpainAlthough democracy was not established until two years later, it had a budget of over 20.3 million euros, eight of which was for advertising only, and had organized various cultural events related to the end of the dictatorship throughout the year.
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