Company
Finding the story in the facts since 2013
Fact & Story is Matt and Catherine Walker. We set the company up in 2013 to help organisations with something important to say turn their evidence into stories people would read, watch and share.
Matt Walker
Partner, editorial and creative director
Matt spent two decades as a senior editor at New Scientist and the BBC. At the BBC he created Your Life on Earth, which told millions of people the story of their own lifetime from the day they were born. The Days of You grew out of that idea.
His work has been nominated for a BAFTA in Digital Creativity and has won three Webby Awards and two Lovies. It has been twice voted the best science website, produced the BBC's highest-rated app and its most-shared online story, and reached more than half a billion people.
Catherine Walker
Partner, project and web director
Catherine has run digital projects for twenty years, on the client side and in agencies. She managed the delivery of BBC iPlayer, which won a BAFTA, and has led projects for Lloyds Banking Group, Land Rover, Yodel and the UK and Scottish governments.
What we have done
For ten years our clients were organisations with evidence that mattered and an audience that wasn't listening: development banks, global health agencies, research charities and broadcasters. We made reports, interactive stories and campaigns for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, Gavi, Wellcome, Harwell and the BBC, among others.
In 2026 we put the same craft into something of our own. The Days of You is a hardback about one person, made from the facts of their own life. It is what the company is building now.