Michael Mosley

About

Michael Hugh Mosley (22 March 1957 – 5 June 2024) was a British television and radio journalist, producer, presenter and writer who worked for the BBC from 1985 until his death. He presented television programmes on biology and medicine and regularly appeared on The One Show. Mosley was an advocate of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets who wrote books promoting the ketogenic diet.
He died on the Greek island of Symi on 5 June 2024 at the age of 67.

Michael Hugh Mosley was born in Calcutta, India, on 22 March 1957, the son of Arthur Daryl Alexander George “Bill” Mosley and Joan Stewart. He had an older brother and a younger brother and sister. His father was a banker born in George Town, Penang, of partly Armenian descent. His maternal grandfather, Arthur Dudley Stewart, was an Anglican priest and Principal of St. Paul’s College, Hong Kong, born to Irish missionary parents in China. Mosley’s maternal great-grandfather, Gerard Lander, was Anglican Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong).
Mosley attended boarding school in England from the age of seven. After attending Haileybury College, a boarding and day public school (at the time for boys only)…