Mark Cooper

Biography

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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TOTP2

(1994) Executive Producer

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The White Crow

(2018) Co-Producer

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Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting

(2022) Executive Producer

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Elton John at the BBC

(2010) Executive Producer

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Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me

(2016) Executive Producer

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Manic Street Preachers: From There to Here

(1998) Producer

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Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

(2018) Executive Producer

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George Michael: A Different Story

(2004) Executive Producer

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Acting

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Year	Role	Movie/Tv
2022	Executive Producer	Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting 2022-06-19 Movie
2021	Producer	Introducing Jodea 2021-11-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	Jazz Horns Gold 2021-08-06 Movie
2020	Executive Producer	Soul America 2020-09-04 TV Show
2019	Executive Producer	James Galway at the BBC 2019-12-08 Movie
	Executive Producer	Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie 2019-09-20 Movie
	Executive Producer	Pappano's Greatest Arias 2019-02-24 Movie
2018	Executive Producer	Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 2018-09-14 Movie
	Co-Producer	The White Crow 2018-08-31 Movie
2017	Executive Producer	Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas 2017-12-22 Movie
	Executive Producer	Giselle: Belle of the Ballet 2017-04-02 Movie
	Executive Producer	Stunning Soloists at the BBC 2017-03-26 Movie
	Executive Producer	Classic Quartets at the BBC 2017-03-19 Movie
	Executive Producer	Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC 2017-03-05 Movie
2016	Executive Producer	Classic Cellists at the BBC 2016-12-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me 2016-04-16 Movie
	Producer	Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC 2016-03-11 Movie
	Executive Producer	Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick 2016-01-29 Movie
2015	Executive Producer	Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones 2015-12-29 Movie
	Executive Producer	Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version 2015-11-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	Girls in Bands at the BBC 2015-10-30 Movie
	Producer	Indie Classics at the BBC 2015-10-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	Cilla at the BBC 2015-08-16 Movie
	Executive Producer	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC 2015-07-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	Kanye West - Live at Glastonbury 2015-06-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road 2015-04-25 Movie
2014	Executive Producer	Country Queens at the BBC 2014-11-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park 2014-10-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill 2014-08-22 Movie
	Executive Producer	Kate Bush at the BBC 2014-08-22 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond 2014-03-28 Movie
2013	Executive Producer	ABBA at the BBC 2013-12-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Joy of ABBA 2013-12-12 Movie
	Executive Producer	Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain 2013-12-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	Agnetha: ABBA & After 2013-06-09 Movie
	Executive Producer	Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas 2013-05-10 Movie
	Executive Producer	Jazz Divas Gold 2013-05-10 Movie
2012	Executive Producer	Slade at the BBC 2012-12-21 Movie
	Executive Producer	Jazz Piano Gold 2012-02-19 Movie
	Executive Producer	Duets at the BBC 2012-02-14 Movie
2011	Executive Producer	Country at the BBC 2011-12-24 Movie
	Executive Producer	A Tribute to Amy Winehouse by Jools Holland 2011-08-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	Amy Winehouse Tribute 2011-08-06 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Kinks at the BBC 2011-07-15 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Santana Story: Angels and Demons 2011-06-10 Movie
	Executive Producer	The Joy of Easy Listening 2011-05-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	Easy Listening Hits at the BBC 2011-05-27 Movie
2010	Executive Producer	The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water 2010-10-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	Elton John at the BBC 2010-10-30 Movie
	Executive Producer	Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights 2010-09-17 Movie
	Executive Producer	Metal at the BBC 2010-03-05 Movie
2009	Executive Producer	Krautrock : The Rebirth of Germany 2009-10-22 Movie
	Executive Producer	...Sings the Beatles 2009-09-12 Movie
	Executive Producer	Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? 2009-04-01 Movie
	Executive Producer	Annie Lennox - BBC Sessions Live at St Lukes 2009-03-07 Movie
	Executive Producer	Motown at the BBC 2009-02-20 Movie
2008	Executive Producer	Paul Weller: BBC Four Sessions 2008-11-14 Movie
2007	Executive Producer	If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story 2007-12-14 Movie
	Producer	Elvis Costello: Live: A Case for Song 2007-06-26 Movie
	Executive Producer	Folk Hibernia at the BBC 2007-03-16 Movie
2005	Executive Producer	The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen' 2005-08-15 Movie
2004	Executive Producer	George Michael: A Different Story 2004-11-27 Movie
	Executive Producer	Johnny Cash: The Last Great American 2004-02-27 Movie
1998	Producer	Manic Street Preachers: From There to Here 1998-09-23 Movie
	Producer	Richard Lester! 1998-09-16 Movie
1994	Executive Producer	TOTP2 1994-09-17 TV Show
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