Mark Cooper
Personal Info
Known for
Production
Gender
Male
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
Known For
Crew
(2022)
Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting
Executive Producer
(2021)
Jazz Horns Gold
Executive Producer
(2021)
Introducing Jodea
Producer
(2019)
James Galway at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2019)
Pappano's Greatest Arias
Executive Producer
(2019)
Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
Executive Producer
(2018)
The White Crow
Co-Producer
(2018)
Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Executive Producer
(2017)
Stunning Soloists at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2017)
Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas
Executive Producer
(2017)
Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
Executive Producer
(2017)
Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2017)
Classic Quartets at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2016)
Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC
Producer
(2016)
Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
Executive Producer
(2016)
Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
Executive Producer
(2016)
Classic Cellists at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2016)
The Joy of Rachmaninoff
Executive Producer
(2015)
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Executive Producer
(2015)
Cilla at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2015)
Indie Classics at the BBC
Producer
(2015)
Girls in Bands at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2015)
Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
Executive Producer
(2015)
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2015)
Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
Executive Producer
(2015)
Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
Executive Producer
(2014)
The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
Executive Producer
(2014)
Kate Bush at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2014)
Country Queens at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2014)
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Executive Producer
(2014)
Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park
Executive Producer
(2013)
Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
Executive Producer
(2013)
Agnetha: ABBA & After
Executive Producer
(2013)
Jazz Divas Gold
Executive Producer
(2013)
The Joy of ABBA
Executive Producer
(2013)
ABBA at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2013)
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
Executive Producer
(2012)
Jazz Piano Gold
Executive Producer
(2012)
Slade at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2012)
Duets at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2011)
Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
Executive Producer
(2011)
Amy Winehouse Tribute
Executive Producer
(2011)
The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
Executive Producer
(2011)
The Joy of Easy Listening
Executive Producer
(2011)
Country at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2011)
The Kinks at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2011)
Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2010)
Elton John at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2010)
Metal at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2010)
Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights
Executive Producer
(2010)
The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
Executive Producer
(2009)
Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
Executive Producer
(2009)
Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
Executive Producer
(2009)
Motown at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2009)
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Executive Producer
(2009)
...Sings the Beatles
Executive Producer
(2009)
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Executive Producer
(2008)
Paul Weller: BBC Four Sessions
Executive Producer
(2007)
Folk Hibernia at the BBC
Executive Producer
(2007)
If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
Executive Producer
(2007)
Amy Winehouse: BBC One Sessions Live At Porchester Hall
Executive Producer
(2007)
(2005)
The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
Executive Producer
(2004)
George Michael: A Different Story
Executive Producer
(2004)
(2004)
Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Executive Producer
(2001)
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
Executive Producer
(1998)
(1998)
Richard Lester!
Producer
(1991)