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Mark Bell is a television Commissioning Editor and Producer based in London, England. He began his career working as an editor in publishing. From 2004, he worked as Channel Executive on BBC Four and BBC Two. In 2007, he became Commissioning Editor of Independent Specialist Factual in Knowledge Commissioning. In 2009, he was appointed Commissioning Editor, Arts. In June 2009, he was confirmed as the Arts Co-ordinator of the BBC.

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Commissioning Editor:
2014  War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
2017  Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017  England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation
2017  Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
2017  Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2018  Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics
2018  Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018  Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2022  La Voix humaine

Executive Producer:
2010  Macbeth
2014  War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
2017  Arcadia
2017  Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017  England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation
2017  Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
2017  Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2018  Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics
2018  Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018  Make Me Up
2018  Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018  The Eyes of Orson Welles
2020  The Changin' Times of Ike White
2022  La Voix humaine

Producer:
2010  Macbeth
2014  War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
2016  Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
2017  Arcadia
2017  Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017  England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation
2017  Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
2017  Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2018  Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics
2018  Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018  Make Me Up
2018  Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and Milkmen
2018  The Eyes of Orson Welles
2020  The Changin' Times of Ike White
2022  La Voix humaine

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TV Production

Commissioning Editor:
2011  Fake or Fortune?

Executive Producer:
2011  Fake or Fortune?
2015  Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
2018  Civilisations

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