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Mark Cooper
Producer, Additional Credits
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
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
Filmography
| 2022 | Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | |
| 2019 | Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The White Crow · as Co-Producer |
| 2018 | Aretha Franklin: Respect · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Glastonbury 2017 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Giselle: Belle of the Ballet · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Bowie at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Perfect Pianists at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Rod Stewart Live at Hyde Park · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Girls in Bands at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | The Joy of Mozart · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Country Queens at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Kate Bush at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Rod Stewart at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The Joy of ABBA · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Abba at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | BBC Proms (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Agnetha: Abba & After · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Slade at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | ... Sings James Bond · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Rolling Stones at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Punk Britannia (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Sounds of the 70s (2012) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Sweet Home Alabama: The Southern Rock Saga · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | The Joy of Disco · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Elton John at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Forever Young: How Rock 'n' Roll Grew Up · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Glastonbury 2010 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Radio 1's Big Weekend (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Heavy Metal Britannia · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Synth Britannia · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Latin Music USA (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Motown at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Prog Rock Britannia · as Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Kings of Rock 'n' Roll · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink? · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Hawkwind: Do Not Panic · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Folk Hibernia at the BBC · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Amy Winehouse: BBC One Sessions Live At Porchester Hall · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | Once Upon a Time in New York: the Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | BBC Electric Proms (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | George Michael: A Different Story · as Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Johnny Cash: The Last Great American · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | imagine... (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Richard Thompson: Solitary Life · as Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Dolly Parton: Platinum Blonde · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Ian Dury: On My Life! · as Executive Producer |
| 1998 | The Corrs: 'Live at the Royal Albert Hall · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | Oasis: Right Here Right Now · as Executive Producer |
| 1997 | The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart · as Executive Producer |
| 1992 | Later... with Jools Holland (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1971 | Great Performances (TV Series) |
| 1964 | Top of the Pops (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |