Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker is Britain's biggest pudding factory and, in here, every day is Christmas Day.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

Before joining Matthew Walker, Mackie worked in the supermarket sushi and prepacked sandwich business.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

Matthew Walker, the eponymous company founded in 1899 and now owned by Northern Foods, is a leviathan of the Christmas pudding world.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

"We saw this strange lopsided shift," says lead author Matthew Walker, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California-Berkeley.

The Sleepless Elite Melinda Beck 2011

When Waitrose needed somewhere to make Heston Blumenthal's cult puddings with a whole syrup-soaked orange in the middle, it was to Matthew Walker it turned.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

Getting into the Christmas spirit at the Matthew Walker factory in the Derbyshire town of Heanor isn't difficult.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

Matthew Walker is the biggest single purchaser of liquor outside the bottling industry, using 1m litres a year.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

• You can see Jay Rayner's film about the Matthew Walker factory, and how his pudding turned out, on The One Show, Friday, BBC1, 7pm.

Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011

But Matthew Walker and ten Doeschate got the innings back on course, as did Scott Styris.

Ryan ten Doeschate injury takes gloss of Essex win over Somerset Vic Marks at the County Ground 2010

“We all think we have to stay awake to get more done,” says Matthew Walker, the director of the sleep and neuroimaging lab at UC Berkeley.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010