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

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''. Bain was born in

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, England, to Eunice (nee Thomas) and

George Bramwell Evens The Rev. George Bramwell Evens (15 February 1884–20 November 1943) was, under the pseudonym Romany (and sometimes The Tramp), a British radio broadcaster and writer on countryside and natural history matters – quite possibly the first to br ...

. Evens was a

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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. From 1948 to 1962, Bain was married to the theatre critic and biographer Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, who used the pen-name

Richard Findlater Richard Findlater (1921–1985) was a British theatre critic and biographer. Early life He was born Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain, but worked under the pen-name Richard Findlater. Career Findlater was arts editor for ''The Observer'', and became ...

. They had four children. One of their sons became an Anglican priest-clown known as Roly Bain or "Holy Roly". She subsequently married the jazz bandleader

Tommy Watt Thomas Mitchell Watt (31 October 1925, Glasgow – 20 May 2006, Bristol, England) was a Scottish jazz bandleader. Born to a working-class family, his father a machinist toolmaker, Watt was hired as a pianist by Carl Barriteau at age 17, and serv ...

, with whom she had a son, the musician

Ben Watt Benjamin Brian Thomas Watt (born 6 December 1962) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, author, DJ, and radio presenter, best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl. Early life Watt was born in Marylebone, London, and grew u ...

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