TVE's La2 will remember Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente with special programming

Spanish Television will recover chapters of 'The Man and the Earth', for the first time remastered in HD, and will broadcast the documentary 'The Human Animal', directed by Manel Arranz and Gemma Soriano, which collects testimonies from family members, co-workers and renowned scientists and naturalists.

The human animal stars this month in the cycle We are Documentary and inaugurates the special programming that La 2 de Spanish Television will dedicate next week to Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente. It is RTVE's own production that goes back in time and reaches the childhood memories of viewers who glued themselves to the television to listen to the charismatic Rodríguez de la Fuente.

From programs like The man and the earth It changed the mentality of Spaniards in relation to nature, a space that achieved unprecedented success for TVE with international awards and recognition. On the occasion of 90th anniversary of his birth, La 2 pays tribute to him in several programs and recovers chapters of his most recognized work for the first time in HD.

The audiovisual career of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente developed almost entirely on TVE, where he was in charge of several programs such as Fauna, Animalia about Pblue laneta. But his great work was The man and the earth, a documentary series that aired from 1974 to 1981, a year after his death. Award-winning and internationally recognized, it is divided into three blocks: the Venezuelan and American series, the first and last respectively, and the Iberian series considered by many to be its magnum opus.

With the latter, Félix wanted to leave a documentary record of the biodiversity of the Peninsula. “The important thing about Félix was not that he made the Serengeti known to the Spaniards, but that he made them admire their own treasures, the backyard of a country where there were sayings like 'bird of passage, club'” values ​​scientist Miguel Delibes de Castro, a former collaborator of his on the encyclopedia. Fauna.

This emotional tribute features testimonies from his youngest daughter, Odile, his widow Marcelle Parmentier, co-workers and renowned scientists and naturalists such as Luis Miguel Domínguez or Carlos Tabernero, professor of the history of science. Furthermore, the work has had the privilege of delving into the naturalist's personal archive. There are thousands of documents, among which the correspondence he maintained with his audience stands out.

The human animal It is a documentary RTVE's own production, directed by Manel Arranz and Gemma Soriano. Its premiere at Cineteca Madrid will be this Tuesday, March 6 at 8:30 p.m. Its television premiere will be on Monday, March 12 on 'Imprescindibles' on La 2 at 8:50 p.m.

Special programming on La 2

During the next week, on the 90th anniversary of his birth, La 2 will broadcast special content as a tribute to Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. Monday to Thursday (6:10 p.m.) Documenta2 will broadcast two daily episodes of The man and the earth remastered for the first time in High Definition, as operation anaconda, The wolf, The nocturnal raptors o Forest prisoners, among other titles.

Besides, The green beetle will offer the special Rodríguez de la Fuente and the marsh (Friday the 16th at 6:30 p.m.). The space travels to Doñana, where it makes four reports to document the great differences that exist between the marsh that the popularizer knew and recorded and that of today, faced with enormous challenges for its survival. There they interview Odile Rodríguez de la Fuente, and Javier Castroviejo, technical director of the Park for 13 years.