Chris Rogers
"Things you people wouldn't believe..." Blade Runner at forty
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, initially unsuccessful but now an accepted classic and hugely influential, was released four decades ago...
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Chris Rogers
Jun 11, 20225 min read
Hello darkness, my old friend
You might think you know Walter Sickert, creator of dark interiors suggesting darker deeds. But as I found at Tate Britain’s current...
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Chris Rogers
May 31, 20223 min read
What if… the Blitz had missed the Square Mile?
Eighty years ago Nazi Germany’s bombing offensive devastated the City of London, then as now the financial centre of the British capital....
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Chris Rogers
May 26, 20223 min read
BBC What four
For a while in the 2000s it looked like Canadian comedian Mike Myers, of all people, had accurately predicted the expansion plans of the...
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Chris Rogers
May 8, 20222 min read
Going underground
Until Wednesday one of the ‘Secrets of the London Underground’ was when, exactly, Crossrail would open, but TfL’s announcement that day...
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Chris Rogers
Apr 26, 20226 min read
What’s British about the British Museum?
The question is often asked by those calling for the restitution of objects in the collections of the London institution, the world’s...
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