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Jack de Manio was born on 26 January, 1914, is a British journalist and radio presenter. Discover Jack de Manio's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Jack de Manio Height, Weight & Measurements
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Jack de Manio Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Jack de Manio worth at the age of 74 years old? Jack de Manio’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. He is from . We have estimated Jack de Manio's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
Giovanni Batista "Jack" de Manio MC and Bar (26 January 1914 – 28 October 1988) was a British journalist, best known as a radio presenter.
He was the son of Jean and Florence de Manio.
His father was an Italian aviator, who died in a flying accident before he was born; his mother was Polish.
He attended Aldenham School in Hertfordshire.
As a young man he worked as an invoice clerk and then as a waiter.
He was married for a second time in 1947 in Chelsea, London, to Loveday Elizabeth Matthews, a widow (née Abbott), (2 February 1917 – April 1999).
He married first in 1935 Juliet Gravaeret Kaufmann of New York.
He was called up by the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1939.
He fought with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1939–40 and from 1940 to 1944 he was with the 1st battalion, Middle East forces.
He was awarded the Military Cross in 1940, and a bar was added to it in north Africa.
He was "dismissed the Service by sentence of a Field Gen. Court-Martial" on 20 March 1944.
De Manio's first experience of radio came when he joined the Forces Broadcasting Unit in Beirut in 1944.
He became an announcer on the BBC Overseas Service on leaving the army in 1946.
The marriage was dissolved in 1946.
He transferred to the Home Service in 1950.
De Manio's career nearly crashed in 1956 when he was duty announcer for the BBC's Home Service.
A major radio feature, The Land of the Niger, was broadcast worldwide to mark a Royal visit to Nigeria.
Carelessly, he back-announced it as 'The Land of the Nigger'.
There was outrage; he was immediately suspended and then returned to the General Overseas Service.
In 1958 de Manio was chosen to present the morning current affairs programme Today, which had begun a few months earlier.
The programme was less hard news oriented than it would eventually become and was well suited to de Manio's relaxed, humorous style.
He became famous for the number of occasions on which he gave the time incorrectly.
He was voted British Radio Personality of the Year in 1964 and 1971.
In 1969 he was the first radio broadcaster to be permitted to interview Prince Charles.
In 1970 the programme format was changed so that there were two presenters each day.
Uneasy with the new format, de Manio left the following year.
At the point of his departure, de Manio was considered out-of-step with the news values of the BBC.
The World at One had successfully brought to the BBC the best of Fleet Street values and a hardened newspaper editor in the form of William Hardcastle.
Hardcastle contrasted unflatteringly with de Manio – whom David Hendy described in Life on Air: A History of Radio 4 as "a Bentley-driving habitué of Chelsea and the clubs of St James, complete with a rich gin and tonic voice".
Sue MacGregor disliked de Manio's "golf-club bore attitude to anything foreign".
From 1971 to 1978 de Manio presented an afternoon show, Jack de Manio Precisely on Radio 4.
Subsequently, he was an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour.
