Franny Moyle (born 1964) is a British television producer and author. Her first book ''Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites'' (2009) was adapted into the

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drama serial '' Desperate Romantics'' by screenwriter

Peter Bowker Peter Bowker (born 5 January 1959) is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the television serials ''Blackpool (TV series), Blackpool'' (2004), a musical drama about a shady casino owner in the Northern England, north of En ...

. Her second book, '' Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs.

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...

'' was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. In 2016 she released ''Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner'', published by Viking. In 2021, her book, ''The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein'', was published by Abrams Press in New York.

Career

Moyle is a graduate in English and the History of Art from

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. She joined BBC television in 1992"Franny Moyle appointed as Head of Arts Commissioning for BBC Television"
BBC Press Office, 30 July 2002 as a producer and director initially working predominantly in leisure programming as the editor of magazine programme ''

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''. She became the BBC's Creative Director, Arts, running its in-house arts programming production department in London before being appointed the corporation's first dedicated Commissioner for Arts and Culture across its four channels. In 2005, she left a permanent role at the BBC to write and work as a freelance for her own projects. She continues to work as a Director of the Hackney Empire near her home in East London. She is married to the television director and writer Richard Curson Smith and has three children.

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* 1964 births British women television producers Living people Television producers from London Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge {{UK-tv-bio-stub