Romany Bain (nee Evens, 22 March 1924 – 29 March 2015) was a British journalist and showbusiness interviewer.[1] In the 1960s and 1970s, she worked as a features writer for She magazine and the Daily Mail.[1]

Romany Bain
Born
Romany Evens

(1924-03-22)22 March 1924
Carlisle, England
Died29 March 2015(2015-03-29) (aged 91)
Occupation(s)Journalist, showbusiness interviewer
Spouses
(m. 1948; div. 1962)
(m. 1962; died 2006)
Children5, including Roly Bain and Ben Watt
Parent(s)George Bramwell Evens
Eunice Thomas

Bain was born in Carlisle, England, to Eunice (nee Thomas)[2] and George Bramwell Evens. Evens was a Methodist minister who, under his pseudonym Romany, later worked for the BBC as one of the first wildlife programme presenters, with Eunice as his assistant and script editor.[1]

From 1948 to 1962, Bain was married to the theatre critic and biographer Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, who used the pen-name Richard Findlater. They had four children. One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly".[3] She subsequently married the jazz bandleader Tommy Watt, with whom she had a son, the musician Ben Watt.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Watt, Ben (31 March 2015). "Romany Bain obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. ^ "The Romany Society | Celebrating G. Bramwell Evens, "Romany of the BBC", Britain's first broadcasting naturalist".
  3. ^ "The Reverend Roly Bain, priest and clown – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Romany Bain: Show-business interviewer who charmed Richard Burton and later worked for Larry Lamb at 'The Sun'". The Independent. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.