Días de Tele, Julia Otero’s program on La 1 de TVE, has prepared a special on the occasion of International Women’s Day entitled The day women speak out. This Wednesday, March 8, from 10:50 p.m., the room will show current testimonies and other material from the archives of the public broadcaster, such as that of the singer Massiel, the actress and director Leticia Dolera, the singer Rocío Carrasco and the actress Jedet, soccer player Aitana Bonmatí and astronaut Sara García. How is the image of women on television? And which discourses have changed society? They will be two of the big issues this special addresses.
The director of the LaCoproductora program (by Grupo Prisa, editor of EL PAÍS), Carolina Bilder, told this newspaper on Tuesday that the space will “revisit the role that television has given to women and various issues related to it Celebration of the 8 -M and from various fields such as arts, sports and science to show the global nature of the phenomenon”. “We thought it was interesting to invite women who tell their personal stories and who represent many other women whose voices are never heard. It’s not about telling each of their specific cases, but about analyzing the social impact of their media interventions,” he explains.
The show, which covers iconic television moments that have shaped Spanish society over the past 50 years, takes its starting point from the censored remarks made by Massiel in an interview in 1973, years after he had won the Eurovision Song Contest. Her intervention in a program presented by José María Íñigo remained unpublished for 35 years, until 2008, because in it the singer He championed social rights such as divorce and the birth control pill, and expressed a stance on women that was incompatible with Franco’s ideology. “If you have to get married to fulfill yourself? My daughter, how sad. Come on, if that were the case, what would become of me,” she assured on camera when asked by a journalist if marriage was the only means for a woman to fulfill herself. The video went viral after it was posted.
After this introduction, Días de Tele will place Rocío Carrasco and Leticia Dolera in the first block at Julia Otero’s discussion table. The first recalls the impact of her testimony on the show Tell the Truth to Stay Alive (Telecinco). His words, broadcast over several episodes, piqued viewer interest and caused calls to 016, the helpline for victims of sexist violence, to increase by 42%. “Don’t do the same as me. Let ’em say it, let ’em go to the door of whoever it is. Let them say it from minute zerothat you are not alone,” he assured in his message to other victims of the last broadcast. Dolera will analyze her feminist perspective in her projects based on her experiences. The actress will remember her professional challenges as she began taking the plunge as a screenwriter and director, as well as her letter published in eldiario.es in 2017 denouncing the Harvey Weinstein and Me Too phenomenon, following the outbreak of the Phenomenon, the first-person abuse throughout his career and the tacit complicity of some employees.
Each (right), in “Días de Tele” IVAN MORENO PEREZ
Later, Julia Otero will have a one-on-one meeting with Raquel Orantes, one of Ana Orantes’ daughters. The woman was murdered by her ex-husband on December 17, 1997, less than two weeks after she went on television to denounce 40 years of abuse. The media character of the case was the trigger that changed the perception of male violence. The government reformed the penal code in 1999, two years after the assassination of Orantes, to issue injunctions and henceforth make psychological violence a crime.
And then, Einet (Veneno) will enter the room, who will speak about his complaint to producer Javier Pérez Santana about sexual assault at the party after the Feroz Awards ceremony, held in Zaragoza at the end of January. For her part, Aitana Bonmatí, Barça player and leader of the Spanish soccer team, will share her vision of this sport, her childhood and the pressures that top athletes are subjected to. This episode dedicated to International Women’s Day ends with a link to Sara García, the Leonese biotechnologist who, in November 2022, became the first Spanish astronaut to choose the European Space Agency (ESA) for one of its expeditions.
The January premiere of Días de tele, which marked the Galician journalist’s return to television, garnered 1.1 million viewers for its first episode, staying around the channel’s average during that time slot. La 1’s prime-time program will again be accompanied by comedian and podcaster Carolina Iglesias (Estirando el chicle), communication professor José Miguel Contreras and journalist Pablo González Batista. In addition, screenwriter Isabel Vázquez (one of the people responsible for writing the Bosé series) will review the character of the woman on television.
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