Fact & Story

We turn facts and data into stories that move people.

Fact & Story is a small studio near Bristol run by Matt and Catherine Walker. We have made stories from evidence for the BBC, New Scientist, the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the UK government, and our work has reached more than half a billion people.

Clients include

  • BBC
  • New Scientist
  • World Bank
  • World Health Organization
  • UK Government
  • Wellcome
  • Gavi
  • Harwell
  • Equal Measures 2030
  • KAPSARC
  • Camargue

Awards

  • BAFTA nomination
  • Three Webby Awards
  • Two Lovie Awards

Our book

The Days of You

A book about one person, from the day they were born.

Give us a name, a birthday and a birthplace, and we make a hardback about that one person. It opens on the morning they arrived, with the sun rising on their first day and the moon over their first night. Then it follows the world across their lifetime: prices, food, travel, sport, the climate and the sky.

Around 300 facts in 25 chapters, every one of them theirs, and every one checked before it goes to print. The cover is a disc of dots, one for each day they have lived, so no two covers are alike.

£49 in the UK, $65 in the US, delivery included.

Make one at thedaysofyou.com Find it on Etsy
A printed copy of The Days of You on a wooden table beside a mug. The cover reads The Days of Catherine, above a disc of tiny dots ringed by the chapter titles.
A two-page spread from The Days of You headed Since the Day You Were Born, with counts in gold on a night sky fading to green: seconds lived, the distance the galaxy has carried the reader, the stars their birth-day light has passed.
Since the Day You Were Born, one of the 25 chapters. It counts the seconds they have lived, how far the galaxy has carried them and how much rain has fallen on their home town since that morning.

More of our work

Four sites we publish ourselves

Who we are

Matt and Catherine Walker

Matt Walker

Editorial and creative director

Matt spent twenty years as a senior editor at New Scientist and the BBC, where he created Your Life on Earth. His work has been nominated for a BAFTA and has won three Webby Awards.

Catherine Walker

Project and web director

Catherine has spent twenty years running digital projects, for clients and for agencies, from BBC iPlayer to Lloyds Banking Group, Land Rover and the UK and Scottish governments.

More about the company

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