Romany Bain
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 22 March 1924 Carlisle, England |
| Died | 29 March 2015 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, showbusiness interviewer |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 5, 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
- Watt, Ben (31 March 2015). "Romany Bain obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- "The Romany Society | Celebrating G. Bramwell Evens, "Romany of the BBC", Britain's first broadcasting naturalist".
- "The Reverend Roly Bain, priest and clown – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
- "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.