Jack De Manio

[Alan Gilmartin]

This name came into my head a while ago , what did he do?.

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

Was he a newsreader or something? I know the name.

 

[harwood red]

He presented the Today programme on radio 4

Isn't google great?

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

Being a person who doesn't think she's ever listened to the today program on radio 4 I think he must have done something on TV too because the name certainly sounds familiar but from the dim and distant past.

Maybe I should have a google too

 

[West Ender]

I used to listen to Jack de Manio on the radio. He was a law unto himself, didn't much care if his opinion wasn't the "party line", and he was always giving the time wrong on the clock. I don't remember him ever being on TV but I may be wrong.

 

[WillowTheWhisp]

Maybe my parents had him on the radio then when I lived with them.

 

[grannyclaret]

He was on about the same time as the lovely late Ray Moore..

 

[steeljack]

For some reason I associate the name with the Cliff Michelmore/Jean Metcalf era on the 'light program'

 

[cashman]

this is Jack De Manio with the first edition of Today.- thats all i can remember he used to introduce it with those words.

 

[West Ender]

The man himself!

 

[MargaretR]

Now I remember him ! -- I was getting confused with Joe Di Maggio who was married to Marilyn Monroe

West Ender---Great having time to google isn't it?

 

[West Ender]

Now I remember him ! -- I was getting confused with Joe Di Maggio who was married to Marilyn Monroe

West Ender---Great having time to google isn't it?

Bit of a different ball game there, Margaret. Please excuse feeble pun, Di Maggio having been a baseball player.


Oh yes, Googling's quite a hobby these days.