Britain’s Best Mattress: How to Sleep Better

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We spend more than a third of our lives sleeping. So why do so many of us ignore the most important element to getting a good night’s sleep, our mattress? 

An old and saggy mattress can be a disaster for our health and wellbeing… And even wreck our closest relationships. But if your mattress is delivering more nightmares than sweet dreams… Don’t despair! 

Our team of Sleep Scientists, Consumer Experts and Mattress Technologists will reveal how to find the perfect sleep mate.  Plus we go behind the scenes at 2 major mattress factories, luxury and foam – to see the extraordinary processes that lie behind getting you a good night’s sleep. 

We’ll explore how the story of the mattress began, charting its history from the dawn of human time, to Henry the Eighth’s obsession with having multiple layered mattresses to Nasa creating the memory foam we sleep on today. 

Plus we meet two couples whose sleep, lives and almost their relationships were wrecked by their mattresses …. Until they discovered replacements that beautifully transformed their sleep.