Malcolm Prince

Malcolm Prince is an English radio producer.
Born in Solihull, West Midlands, he attended The University of Warwick.
He is a Producer at the BBC radio channels. He specialises in feature documentaries and music entertainment shows. He began his radio career aged 13 working at BRMB Radio in Birmingham. His mentor was Ed Doolan who took Prince with him to the local BBC Radio station in 1981. At Radio WM, Prince developed his radio skills while continuing his education. In the mid 1990s, Prince sold an idea to BBC World Service which became the series 'Ain't No Mickey Mouse Business'. This was the beginning of a long and successful partnership with the writer and broadcaster, Brian Sibley. In 2000, Prince became a staff producer at BBC Radio 2 producing a variety of weekly programmes and documentaries. Today, he produces:
Paul O'Grady - Sundays from 5pm (Producer)
Graham Norton - Saturdays from 10am, (Producer)
2015
Will Young - Essential 90s RnB
Radio 2 Eurovision - various programmes
2014
The Fuller Picture - The Simon Fuller Story, (Producer), presented by Nicki Chapman
2013
Who Is The Doctor? - A 50th anniversary Doctor Who Special
Other notable productions include: 2012
Clare Balding presents 2012 - The Year To Remember (Producer)
Sixty Amazing Years - The Diamond Jubilee Weekend (Producer/Executive Producer)
2011
Michael Grade On The Box - a history of popular television for March 2012 (Producer)
2010
The Musical - a landmark eight-part series for September 2010, written by Brian Sibley, telling the story of Broadway and London's West End (Producer)
The London Palladium Story - a two-part documentary celebrating 100 years of the famous West End theatre (Producer)
David Puttnam's Century of Cinema, The Sequel with Brian Sibley - a revised repeat of the acclaimed series (Producer)
The Paul O'Grady Christmas Show - Christmas Day 2010
2009
Who on Who? David Tennant interviews Russell T Davies about his work on Doctor Who
Cilla's Sunday Love Songs: two special programmes
The Beatles, Covered presented by Cilla Black
The Paul O'Grady Christmas Show - Christmas Day 2009
2008
Bill Cotton - a tribute to the late Bill Cotton
The Bette Midler Christmas Show - Christmas Day 2008, repeated 2010
The Paul O'Grady Christmas Show - Christmas Day 2008
Icons - a season of music documentaries (2008)
Happy New Year - The Ultimate Abba Chart (New Year's Day 2008) and repeated in May 2008
2007
Re-X-amining Kylie (Boxing Day 2007)
Alan Carr's Christmas Box (Christmas Day 2007)
X-amining Kylie - David Tennant interviews Kylie Minogue (November 2007)
Dale's Groovy 60s - hosted by Dale Winton (2007)
Shadowlands, read by Ian Richardson (2007) and repeated in 2008
Carly Simon: Stage and Screen (2007)
2006
The Natalie Cole Christmas Show (2006)
My Life - The Music and Story of Billy Joel (2006, 2002)
Cliff Richard - Take Another Look (2006), repeated 2010
Ain’t No Mickey Mouse Music (2006)
2005
Behind The Glass - The Phil Ramone Story, presented by Alison Moyet
Liza With a ‘Z’ and All That Jazz (2005), starring Liza Minnelli
Project: Who? (2005), with Christopher Eccleston
Doctor Who: Regeneration (2005)
2004/3
Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Man Behind The Music (2004)
The Language of Kylie - The Kylie Minogue Story (2003)
Cilla, What’s It All About? (2003), starring Cilla Black
The Music Never Ends - The Michel Legrand Story (2003)
Real Songs - The Diane Warren Story (2003)
Barbra Streisand Special (2003)
2002-2000
The Rolling Stones Story (2002)
Clouds In My Coffee, The Carly Simon Story (2002)
He’s Playing Our Song - The Marvin Hamlisch Story (2002)
Thank You For The Music - The Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus Story (2001)
Never Miss An Angle - The Real Walt Disney (2001)
Manilow In The Spotlight (2000), starring Barry Manilow
The Nina Simone Show (2000)
Country Roads with Johnny Cash (2000)
A Day At The Races (2000)
Keep The Music Playing - The Alan and Marilyn Bergman Story (2000)
Prior to 2000
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story (1999)
David Puttnam’s Century of Cinema (1999), starring David Puttnam and Robert Redford and presented by Brian Sibley
Disney’s Women (1998)
Ain’t No Mickey Mouse Business (1995, 1998)
To Be Continued (1998)
Starring Julie - The Julie Andrews Story (1998)
He also produced The Russell Davies Song Show from 2002-2004. In September 2004, he created Elaine Paige on Sunday which he produced until 2010.
In 2003, he produced Radio 2’s Great British Music Debate and later executive-produced the two follow-ups in 2004.
In 2005 he produced Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s first Radio 2 programmes as well as the Network debuts of Paul O'Grady and John Barrowman.
In 2006 he became an Executive Producer at Radio 2.
His key collaborator is writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, with whom Prince has created many programmes for the BBC.