Sir Thomas More's family fortunes mirrored in Holbein portraits [audio 8min]

Hans Holbein has been described as the first great British artist. He came to England during the reign of King Henry VIII under the patronage of Sir Thomas More. Holbein painted two rather different portraits of his patron's family, five years apart. In her new novel, Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Harper Collins), Vanora Bennett attempts to piece together what changed for the family in those intervening years. She invents a tangled love story which mirrors the turbulence of the period. Presenter Martha Kearney talks to author Vanora Bennett about Holbein, fiction and the More family.