Franny Moyle

Franny Moyle, author, art historian, television producer, contributor, lecturer curator and consultant. Her latest biography of Hans Holbein, the critically acclaimed “ The King’s Painter” was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week and described by Laura Freeman in The Times as a triumph, “Wolf Hall but with pics.. a great thrusting cod piece of a book”! Other works include: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner; Desperate Romantics a serial biography of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which was adapted into a six part drama for BBC 2 television, and The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde, also selected as Book of the Week on Radio 4.

A former head of arts and art commissioning at BBC, Franny has worked extensively as an executive producer in arts programming.

In 2021 she curated her first exhibition, a look at JMW Turner’s erotica, entitled Between the Sheets.

Franny lives between Bristol, London and Nice (France).