Production
Mark Cooper
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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
Known for
Filmography
Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting
Executive Producer
Jazz Horns Gold
Executive Producer
Introducing Jodea
Producer
James Galway at the BBC
Executive Producer
Pappano's Greatest Arias
Executive Producer
Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
Executive Producer
The White Crow
Co-Producer
Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Executive Producer
Stunning Soloists at the BBC
Executive Producer
Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas
Executive Producer
Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
Executive Producer
Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC
Executive Producer
Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
Executive Producer
Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
Executive Producer
Classic Cellists at the BBC
2016
Classic Cellists at the BBC
Executive Producer
The Joy of Rachmaninoff
2016
The Joy of Rachmaninoff
Executive Producer
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Executive Producer
Cilla at the BBC
Executive Producer
Girls in Bands at the BBC
Executive Producer
Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
Executive Producer
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Executive Producer
Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
Executive Producer
Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
Executive Producer
The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
Executive Producer
Country Queens at the BBC
Executive Producer
Kate Bush at the BBC
Executive Producer
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Executive Producer
Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park
Executive Producer
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
Executive Producer
Agnetha: ABBA & After
Executive Producer
Jazz Divas Gold
Executive Producer
The Joy of ABBA
Executive Producer
ABBA at the BBC
Executive Producer
Jazz Piano Gold
Executive Producer
Slade at the BBC
Executive Producer
Duets at the BBC
2012
Duets at the BBC
Executive Producer
Jools Holland: London Calling
Executive Producer
Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
Executive Producer
Amy Winehouse Tribute
2011
Amy Winehouse Tribute
Executive Producer
The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
Executive Producer
The Joy of Easy Listening
Executive Producer
Country at the BBC
Executive Producer
The Kinks at the BBC
Executive Producer
Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
Executive Producer
Elton John at the BBC
Executive Producer
Metal at the BBC
Executive Producer
Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights
Executive Producer
The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
Executive Producer
Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
Executive Producer
Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
Executive Producer
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Executive Producer
Motown at the BBC
Executive Producer
...Sings the Beatles
Executive Producer
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Executive Producer
Folk Hibernia at the BBC
Executive Producer
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Executive Producer
Amy Winehouse: BBC One Sessions Live At Porchester Hall
Executive Producer
George Michael: A Different Story
Executive Producer
Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Executive Producer
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Executive Producer
Top of the Pops: The True Story
Executive Producer
Richard Lester!
Producer
