Mark Cooper
Known For: Production
Gender: Male
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
2022
2021
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Executive Producer
Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
Executive Producer
Cilla at the BBC
Producer
Indie Classics at the BBC
Executive Producer
Girls in Bands at the BBC
Executive Producer
Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
Executive Producer
Kanye West - Live at Glastonbury
Executive Producer
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
Executive Producer
Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
Executive Producer
Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
2014
2013
2012
2011
Executive Producer
Amy Winehouse: At the BBC - A Tribute to Amy Winehouse
Executive Producer
Amy Winehouse Tribute
Executive Producer
The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
Executive Producer
The Joy of Easy Listening
Executive Producer
The Kinks at the BBC
Executive Producer
Country at the BBC
Executive Producer
Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
2010
2009
Executive Producer
Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
Executive Producer
Annie Lennox & the BBC Concert Orchestra | Live at St Luke's
Executive Producer
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
Executive Producer
Motown at the BBC
Executive Producer
...Sings the Beatles
Executive Producer
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
