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Mark Cooper was Head of Music at the BBC and lately BBC Studios for 20 years until July 2019, leading the team that created some of the BBC’s most popular music documentaries and shows. He is the founding producer of Later… with Jools Holland and the annual Hootenanny show working with Jools Holland and Director Janet Fraser Crook. He has led on BBC TV’s coverage of Glastonbury since it began in 1997 overseeing its growth on the BBC’s digital channels and developing it as the main televisual event it is today.  Between 2013 and 2018 Mark oversaw the TV coverage of The Proms, curating both the David Bowie and Stax Proms and was executive producer on a number of classical and dance films from Pappano’s Classical Voices to Good Swan, Bad Swan: Dancing Swan Lake with Tamara Rojo.  Producing multiple hours of documentaries on some of the biggest names in music, he has also been responsible for series that explore musical origins like Reginald D Hunter’s Songs of the South as well as leading the strands Britannia, which contains 25 films on the evolution of music genres in the UK, The Joy Of Abba, Easy Listening and Country and America - Rock & Roll, Blues and Tap. Mark continues to work with the BBC as an Executive Producer on special projects.  Biography adapted from BBC Press Release

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Film Production

Co-Producer:
2018  The White Crow

Executive Producer:
2001  Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2004  George Michael: A Different Story
2004  Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
2005  The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
2007  Amy Winehouse: BBC One Sessions Live At Porchester Hall
2007  Folk Hibernia at the BBC
2007  If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2008  Paul Weller: BBC Four Sessions
2009  ...Sings the Beatles
2009  Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
2009  Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
2009  Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
2009  Motown at the BBC
2009  Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
2010  Elton John at the BBC
2010  Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights
2010  Metal at the BBC
2010  The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
2011  Amy Winehouse Tribute
2011  Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
2011  Country at the BBC
2011  Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
2011  The Joy of Easy Listening
2011  The Kinks at the BBC
2011  The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
2012  Duets at the BBC
2012  Jazz Piano Gold
2012  Slade at the BBC
2013  ABBA at the BBC
2013  Agnetha: ABBA & After
2013  Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
2013  Jazz Divas Gold
2013  Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013  The Joy of ABBA
2014  Country Queens at the BBC
2014  Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park
2014  Kate Bush at the BBC
2014  The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
2014  The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
2015  Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015  Cilla at the BBC
2015  Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015  It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015  Kanye West - Live at Glastonbury
2015  Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
2015  Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
2015  Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
2016  Classic Cellists at the BBC
2016  Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
2016  The Joy of Rachmaninoff
2016  Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
2017  Classic Quartets at the BBC
2017  Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
2017  Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC
2017  Stunning Soloists at the BBC
2017  Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas
2018  Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2018  The White Crow
2019  Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
2019  James Galway at the BBC
2019  Pappano's Greatest Arias
2021  Jazz Horns Gold
2022  Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting

Producer:
1991  Vivian Stanshall: The Early Years
1998  Manic Street Preachers: From There to Here
1998  Richard Lester!
2001  Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2004  George Michael: A Different Story
2004  Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
2004  Later... with Jools Holland: Cool Britannia
2005  The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
2007  Amy Winehouse: BBC One Sessions Live At Porchester Hall
2007  Elvis Costello: Live: A Case for Song
2007  Folk Hibernia at the BBC
2007  If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2008  Paul Weller: BBC Four Sessions
2009  ...Sings the Beatles
2009  Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
2009  Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
2009  Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
2009  Motown at the BBC
2009  Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
2010  Elton John at the BBC
2010  Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights
2010  Metal at the BBC
2010  The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
2011  Amy Winehouse Tribute
2011  Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
2011  Country at the BBC
2011  Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
2011  The Joy of Easy Listening
2011  The Kinks at the BBC
2011  The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
2012  Duets at the BBC
2012  Jazz Piano Gold
2012  Slade at the BBC
2013  ABBA at the BBC
2013  Agnetha: ABBA & After
2013  Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
2013  Jazz Divas Gold
2013  Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013  The Joy of ABBA
2014  Country Queens at the BBC
2014  Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park
2014  Kate Bush at the BBC
2014  The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
2014  The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
2015  Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015  Cilla at the BBC
2015  Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015  Indie Classics at the BBC
2015  It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015  Kanye West - Live at Glastonbury
2015  Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
2015  Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
2015  Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
2016  Classic Cellists at the BBC
2016  Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
2016  The Joy of Rachmaninoff
2016  Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
2016  Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC
2017  Classic Quartets at the BBC
2017  Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
2017  Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC
2017  Stunning Soloists at the BBC
2017  Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas
2018  Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2018  David Bowie: Glastonbury 2000
2018  The White Crow
2019  Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
2019  James Galway at the BBC
2019  Pappano's Greatest Arias
2021  Introducing Jodea
2021  Jazz Horns Gold
2022  Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting

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TV Production

Executive Producer:
1994  TOTP2
2005  Girls and Boys - Sex and British Pop
2020  Soul America

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