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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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Better Than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version
2015-11-06
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A Tribute to Amy Winehouse by Jools Holland
2011-08-06
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Stunning Soloists at the BBC
2017-03-26
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Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas
2017-12-22
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Jazz Horns Gold
2021-08-06
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Cilla at the BBC
2015-08-16
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James Galway at the BBC
2019-12-08
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Virtuoso Violinists at the BBC
2016-03-11
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Blues Britannia: Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
2009-04-01
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Amy Winehouse Tribute
2011-08-06
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The Santana Story: Angels and Demons
2011-06-10
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Annie Lennox: BBC One Sessions Live at St Luke's
2009-03-07
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The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
2014-03-28
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Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas
2013-05-10
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Elton John at the BBC
2010-10-30
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Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
2009-10-22
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Motown at the BBC
2009-02-20
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The Britpop Story 'It Really, Really, Really, Could Happen'
2005-08-15
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George Michael: A Different Story
2004-11-27
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Tom Jones's 1950s: The Decade That Made Me
2016-04-16
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Agnetha: ABBA & After
2013-06-09
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Jazz Divas Gold
2013-05-10
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Jazz Piano Gold
2012-02-19
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Pappano's Greatest Arias
2019-02-24
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Indie Classics at the BBC
2015-10-09
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Kate Bush at the BBC
2014-08-22
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Slade at the BBC
2012-12-21
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Country Queens at the BBC
2014-11-07
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Girls in Bands at the BBC
2015-10-30
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Folk Hibernia at the BBC
2007-03-16
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Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
2017-04-02
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Tales from the Tour Bus: Rock 'n' Roll on the Road
2015-04-25
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The Joy of Easy Listening
2011-05-27
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Kanye West - Live at Glastonbury
2015-06-27
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Kiri Te Kanawa at the BBC
2017-03-05
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...Sings the Beatles
2009-09-12
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Manic Street Preachers: From There to Here
1998-09-23
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Pierre Boulez at the BBC: Master and Maverick
2016-01-29
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The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
2014-08-22
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The Joy of ABBA
2013-12-12
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Paul Weller: BBC Four Sessions
2008-11-14
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Classic Quartets at the BBC
2017-03-19
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Classic Cellists at the BBC
2016-12-09
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The Kinks at the BBC
2011-07-15
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Country at the BBC
2011-12-24
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Easy Listening Hits at the BBC
2011-05-27
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Duets at the BBC
2012-02-14
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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: Rock 'n' Roll at the BBC
2015-07-24
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Metal at the BBC
2010-03-05
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Introducing Jodea
2021-11-15
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Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2001-03-03
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Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass and Other Delights
2010-09-17
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If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story
2007-12-14
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Richard Lester!
1998-09-16
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Amy Winehouse – BBC One Sessions Live at Porchester Hall
2007-03-07
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Elvis Costello: Live: A Case for Song
2007-06-26
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Later... with Jools Holland: Cool Britannia
2004-06-24
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Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park
2014-10-17
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Simon Rattle: The Making of a Maestro
2015-02-15
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David Bowie: Glastonbury 2000
2018-11-27
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ABBA at the BBC
2013-12-27
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The Joy of Rachmaninoff
2016-01-01
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Vivian Stanshall: The Early Years
1991-01-01
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Glastonbury: 50 Years and Counting
2022-06-19
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The White Crow
2018-08-31
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Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
2019-09-20
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Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
2018-09-14
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Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
2015-12-29
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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
2004-02-27
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Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
2013-12-01
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The Making of Elton John: Madman Across the Water
2010-10-30
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Soul America
2020-09-04
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