Cathy Rogers During the same period, she played keyboards and sang vocals in the twee pop group Heavenly. In 1995 Rogers moved to the independent production company RDF Media, where she helped devise and produced the popular Channel 4 technology reality game show "Scrapheap Challenge", known in North America as "Junkyard Wars". She appeared onscreen as co-presenter of "Scrapheap Challenge" from the second series onwards until 2001 when Lisa Rogers (no relation) took over, and of "Junkyard Wars" for the first three series until replaced by Karyn Bryant. She also created and hosted a related programme, "Full Metal Challenge". She continued her
Junkyard Empire between distant members and working with activists and organizations across the country including having a track featured on the May 2012 release of “Occupy This Album”, a benefit album for the Occupy Movement featuring 99 tracks for the 99%. Junkyard Empire’s “Rebellion Politik” title track is featured alongside notable artists such as Tom Morello, of Rage Against the Machine, Anti-Flag, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Ani DiFranco among others. Their well-known track "We Want" from their fourth album "Acts of Humanity" is now the theme song for Project Censored's radio show on Berkeley's KPFA radio. Junkyard Empire was also featured in