Mark Cooper
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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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Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC
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Producer
2016
Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
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Executive Producer
2016
Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
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Executive Producer
2016
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Classic Cellists at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2016
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The Joy of Rachmaninoff
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Executive Producer
2016
- 2015
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
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Executive Producer
2015
Cilla at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2015
Indie Classics at the BBC
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Producer
2015
Girls in Bands at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2015
Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
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Executive Producer
2015
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2015
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Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
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Executive Producer
2015
Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
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Executive Producer
2015
- 2014
- 2013
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
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Executive Producer
2013
Agnetha: ABBA & After
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Executive Producer
2013
Jazz Divas Gold
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Executive Producer
2013
The Joy of ABBA
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Executive Producer
2013
ABBA at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2013
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
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Executive Producer
2013
- 2012
- 2011
Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
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Executive Producer
2011
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Amy Winehouse Tribute
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Executive Producer
2011
The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
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Executive Producer
2011
The Joy of Easy Listening
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Executive Producer
2011
The Kinks at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2011
Country at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2011
Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2011
- 2010
- 2009
Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
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Executive Producer
2009
Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
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Executive Producer
2009
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
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Executive Producer
2009
Motown at the BBC
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Executive Producer
2009
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...Sings the Beatles
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Executive Producer
2009
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
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Executive Producer
2009
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