[1] He worked for the BBC from 1949, in External Services News (1949–1955), as foreign duty editor (1955–1958), correspondent in Vienna and Balkans (1958), Middle East (based in Beirut, 1958–1960), and Washington, D.C.
[1] The BBC had been attempting to secure permission from the USSR to base a correspondent in Moscow since at least World War II but had always been rebuffed.
[2] The following year, de Mauny secured an interview with the exiled spy, Kim Philby, confirming the latter's presence in Moscow,[2] and covered the fall of Khrushchev.
[1] He was a BBC Foreign Duty Editor (1974–1977) and then Special Correspondent for working for Radio 4's The World Tonight (1977–1980).
[1] The couple's son, Marc de Mauny (born 1971), is a musician who studied at St Petersburg Conservatory and as of 2013 was general manager and executive producer of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in Russia.