Franny Moyle

Franny Moyle, author, art historian, television producer, contributor, lecturer curator and consultant. Her 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).