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person_profile-Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper

Actor | Producer

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Biography of

Mark Cooper

    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 at https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2019/Mark-Cooper-steps-down-Head-of-Music)

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Filmography of

Mark Cooper

Found 55 Movies in total

... 2022

... 2021

Jazz Horns Gold

Executive Producer

... 2021

James Galway at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2019

... 2019

... 2018

... 2018

The White Crow

Co-producer

... 2018

... 2017

... 2017

Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2017

... 2016

... 2016

... 2015

... 2015

Girls in Bands at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2015

... 2015

Cilla at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2015

... 2015

... 2015

... 2015

Country Queens at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2014

... 2014

Kate Bush at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2014

... 2014

... 2014

ABBA at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2013

The Joy of ABBA

Executive Producer

... 2013

... 2013

Agnetha: ABBA & After

Executive Producer

... 2013

... 2013

Jazz Divas Gold

Executive Producer

... 2013

Slade at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2012

Jazz Piano Gold

Executive Producer

... 2012

Country at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2011

The Kinks at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2011

... 2011

... 2011

... 2010

Elton John at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2010

... 2010

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

... 2009

Motown at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2009

... 2007

... 2007

Folk Hibernia at the BBC

Executive Producer

... 2007

... 2007

... 2004

... 2004

... 2004

... 2001

... 1998