How does democratic memory deal with a generation that consumes and tells stories with its own code? The answer comes with Memory modulethe new production of elDiario.es Andalucía, supported by the Ministry of Regional Politics and Democratic Memory, which combines fiction, interviews and digital narrative to build a bridge between those who lived during the dictatorship and those who today want to understand it.
The story begins with Fernando Casado and Lucía Serrano, fourth-year journalism students, who, after doing academic work on the traces of Franco’s rule in the streets of Seville, awakened the interest of an entity dedicated to memory. What started as a classroom exercise became an unexpected invitation: to immerse yourself in its structure and begin to investigate. This starting point gives life to the audio fiction that forms the backbone of the project, published in full in the first week of December, and designed to bring younger generations closer to the harshest episodes of the dictatorship and its impact on thousands of families.
They are Lucia and Fernando, students of the Andalusian Correspondents School, who play themselves in the five episodes of the series. Each episode is linked to a real interview they conducted themselves in the form of a video podcast, in which they sit down to talk with well-known voices in the field of democratic memory: scholars Gonzalo Acosta and Cecilio Gordillo; Lourdes Varatell, a relative of one of the victims; And journalist and collaborator at elDiario.es Andalucía Juan Miguel Baquero.
Behind the project is a team of more than 20 specialists – screenwriters, producers, editors, audio and video operators and voice actors – who made this multi-format media work possible. The series, written by Oscar Gómez, was developed in collaboration with Qwerty Podcast, an Andalusian production company specializing in fantasy and popular genres.
A week of premieres
Each audio fiction episode narrates the background and production process of the accompanying interview, thus fusing audio and video into the same story and adapting to narrative codes most familiar to audiences aged 18-30. In addition, the production will be supported by a series of posts on the “Unidad de memoria” blog on the elDiario.es Andalucía website, where the content and context will be expanded.
It will be Wednesday, December 3, when the introductory episode of audio fiction will be launched and also the first episodes, podcasts and videos, dedicated to building the so-called “prisoners channel”. The rest of the issues will be published on December 4, 5, and 6, bringing us to Constitution Day with the full series available.