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. His home was a flat on Chelsea Embankment in London. Personal life He married first in 1935 Juliet Gravaeret Kaufmann of New York. They had a son. The marriage was dissolved in 1946. He was married for a second time in 1947 in Chelsea, London, Loveday Elizabeth Matthews, a widow (née Abbott), (2 February 1917 – April 1999). Selected bibliography To Auntie with Love. London: Hutchinson, 1967. . Autobiography. Life Begins Too Early: A Sort of Autobiography. London: Hutchinson, 1970. . Footnotes External links The Radio Academy: Jack de Manio British Army Officers 1939−1945 1914 births 1988 deaths BBC Radio 4 presenters British Army personnel of World War II British male journalists British radio people British radio personalities English people of Italian descent People educated at Aldenham School Royal Sussex Regiment officers Recipients of the Military Cross