Queen Letizia and ‘Weekly Report’ enter the vault of the Cervantes Institute: tribute for its 50th anniversary

Weekly report goes into in the Caja de las Letras del Cervantes for his 50th birthday. 2023 is a time of celebrations for TVE’s leading program that has brought together so many professionals. Among them, Queen Letizia, a journalist who was part of his team during his career at the public broadcaster.. The Queen’s video congratulations on the occasion of the half century of the news space went viral on the networks. Now, the management and program members, including Ana Blanco, have visited the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid to deposit their legacy in the institution’s box, which guards lots by Miguel Hernández, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Francisco Ayala, Manuel Alexandre
Ana María Matute, Gabriel García Márquez, Antonio and Manuel Machado and Juan Marsé, among others. The event took place this Monday the 27th in the morning.

The legacy contains scripts (like the one from 23-F), photos, a microphone and a flask, “as a way to unite the work of the reporter, who participates and who presents,” said Ana Blanco in the Cervantes vault. Specific, Weekly report occupies box 1396.

A tribute to the veteran public program, which has been broadcasting uninterruptedly since March 1973 for 50 years. The management of the format has also delivered in the lot the rough of the video that was recorded with the congratulations of Queen Letizia. The original recording of this document is saved in a little red box.

They attended the event Luis García Montero, as director of the institute that protects Spanish in the world; also, Jose Carlos Gallardo, director since 2022; the journalists of the first space team Carmen Sarmiento y Elena Marti (who later directed the program). She has joined Raúl Alda, director in the missing person’s team Pedro Erquicia; Baltasar Magro, director of the weekly Saturday space during various stages; Mari Carmen García Vela, former presenter, and Ana Blanco, its current presenter. In the words of Montero, “it is an honor to unite the history of this program on our public television to a Caja de las Letras that wants to record that the wealth of a country is its human culture and the best way to commit to the future is receive the best inheritance from the past”.