On November 20, it will be half a century since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in Madrid at the age of 82, and in memory of this, RTVE will be holding a special broadcast on the 24h and La2 channels on Wednesday night the 19th of Paso. … Miras, a place that had little to do with the death of the dictator. Located in Sada (La Coruña), it was Franco’s summer residence, and the government declared it a place of democratic memory last September, considering it a “referential symbol of the dictatorship and the center of power” of Francoism.
This is a broadcast that celebrates Symbolic history The beginning of the end of Franco’s dictatorship 50 years later will be accompanied by special programs also on Radio Nacional de España. Radio 5 will be the network responsible for broadcasting the program on “Memory is Democracy”.
Following the government’s plan, RTVE paid special attention to this important day and presented “50 Years of Great Change”, a package of four documentaries – three of its own production – that will be broadcast during this November in commemoration of the dictator’s death. “La Foto”, “Democracy will not happen without us”, “Miradas disobedientes” and “Voladura 76” are the four titles presented by RTVE at an event held on Monday of last week. The first two episodes were broadcast last Wednesday on La1 channel –With 12.4% screen sharebeing the second most-watched option of the night — and the rest will do so for the remainder of the month.
The four audio-visual productions aim to show an “unprecedented view” of what happened, according to the General Authority itself. Their arguments range from the last hours of the dictator’s life – questioning whether Franco’s life had been artificially prolonged – to “A plot of intrigue and tension» Which coincided with the year following the death of the dictator.
In addition to these four programmes, the Public Foundation, in collaboration with the State Secretariat of Democratic Memory, created by the Executive in 2020 and directly dependent on the Ministry of Angel Víctor Torres, launched another project about a month ago which they called “Country of 6,000 Graves”. To present it, La2, 24h and RTVE Play broadcast the special information program “La noche en 24h”. “Cemeteries of the Franco Regime,” which “addressed the current situation of exhumation.”
The project consists of a fifth documentary, “Flower of the Earth,” which tells the story of relatives of republicans who were retaliated against after the coup and who “organized to discover them and return them to their cities for a dignified burial,” which was broadcast during the special; Audio-visual map of Civil War Cemeteries and Francoism and five episodes of the podcast titled “Franco 4.58,” which explores how the dictator’s death was recounted on RNE on the night of November 19-20, half a century ago.
The company has adapted the theme of the death of a dictator to all possible forms. The Weekly Report, which usually reviews current events, will broadcast several reports this month to commemorate the anniversary 50th anniversary of Franco’s death.
For its part, public radio launched, in addition to the podcast, a documentary series within its program “Documentos RNE,” consisting of two chapters. The first, which was broadcast last Saturday, reviewed the “dismantling of the regime” in Franco’s absence and the second – which has not yet been broadcast – “attempts to understand and contextualise the return of an ideal vision” of Franco’s regime with a particular focus on “young men and women”. Social media ecosystem».
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Some promotional photos for the documentaries and reports that RTVE will be showing
It was the President of RTVE himself who two weeks ago demonstrated all these initiatives before the Mixed Committee on Public Entity Monitoring in the Senate. José Pablo López – who was appointed President of the Foundation almost a year ago – proudly emphasized that work around democratic memory has been one of the main lines of work since he assumed the presidency. He himself announced that public television was also working on a series about exile and on a project in “Verifica Rtve” – a section on its website dedicated to investigating disinformation – “to dismantle the hoaxes spread by the far right regarding Francoism and which reach the younger strata of the population.”
Government work
The government has seized the opportunity since the beginning of the year to exploit this issue and turn it into a relevant topic on its agenda. The Ministry of Regional Policy and Democratic Memory created a “Commissioner for”. Celebrating 50 years of Spanish independence– Although democracy was not achieved until two years later – which has a budget of more than 20.3 million euros, 8 of which are only for advertising, and which organizes various cultural events related to the end of the dictatorship throughout the year.
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