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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 ''Desperate Romantics'' is a six-part television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, first broadcast on BBC Two between 21 July and 25 August 2009. The series somewhat fictionalised the lives and events depicted. Though heavily ...
'' by screenwriter
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. Her second book, ''
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: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs.
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'' was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. In 2016 she released ''Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of
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'', 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
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near her home in East London. She is married to the television director and writer
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and has three children.


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* http://www.capelland.com/pages/authors/index.asp?CID=168 1964 births British television producers British women television producers Living people Television people from London Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge {{UK-tv-bio-stub