Manuel Torreiglesias, host of 'Saber vivir', dies

BarcelonaHe was one of the longest-running faces on RTVE's morning show, where he was surrounded by blood pressure monitors and other products prone to consumption in later life. Manuel Torreiglesias has died at the age of 84, according to the City Council of Pontedeume (Galicia), the town where he was born and where, since last year, he was a favorite son. His program Knowing how to live He became a benchmark for senior citizens, as he explored a segment of the population for which there were no specific programs, and his numbers were growing. Despite the success of the show he hosted, his departure was dishonorable, as the public network detected irregularities related to the advertising carried out on the program, which was not always properly identified as such.

With a degree in teaching and philosophy, his television career began around the 1970s, having recently arrived in Madrid, thanks to a game show on the then-sole network called Basket and pointsThis led him to gradually withdraw from medicine, another of his interests, and from teaching. His interest in compensating for these sacrifices through the media was evident as early as 1976, when he presented a program considered pioneering: School of Health, where he spoke in an informative and educational tone about issues related to improving life. After a while, he moved to Radio Nacional de España (RNE) to command Time to live.