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Mark Bell
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Biography
Mark Bell is a television Commissioning Editor and Producer based in London, England. He began his career working as an editor in publishing. From 2004, he worked as Channel Executive on BBC Four and BBC Two. In 2007, he became Commissioning Editor of Independent Specialist Factual in Knowledge Commissioning. In 2009, he was appointed Commissioning Editor, Arts. In June 2009, he was confirmed as the Arts Co-ordinator of the BBC.
Known for

Fake or Fortune?
Commissioning Editor

Civilisations
Executive Producer

Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
Executive Producer

Macbeth
Executive Producer

The Worst Journey in the World
Executive Producer

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Commissioning Editor

The Eyes of Orson Welles
Executive Producer

Make Me Up
Executive Producer
War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
Commissioning Editor

The Changin' Times of Ike White
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2025When Alan Yentob Met Jenny SavilleCommissioning Editor
- 2022The Human VoiceCommissioning Editor
- 2020The Changin' Times of Ike WhiteExecutive Producer
- 2018Raymond Briggs: Snowmen, Bogeymen and MilkmenCommissioning Editor
- 2018Andrew Davies: Rewriting the ClassicsCommissioning Editor
- 2018Egon Schiele: Dangerous DesiresCommissioning Editor
- 2018Make Me UpExecutive Producer
- 2018The Eyes of Orson WellesExecutive Producer
- 2018CivilisationsExecutive Producer
- 2017Harry Potter: A History Of MagicCommissioning Editor
- 2017England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a NationCommissioning Editor
- 2017ArcadiaExecutive Producer
- 2017Basquiat: Rage to RichesCommissioning Editor
- 2017Francis Bacon: A Brush with ViolenceExecutive Producer
- 2016Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to HollywoodProducer
- 2015Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of MonasteriesExecutive Producer
- 2014War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the SommeCommissioning Editor
- 2011Fake or Fortune?Commissioning Editor
- 2010MacbethExecutive Producer
- 2007The Worst Journey in the WorldExecutive Producer
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