Gay Byrne talks to non-believer, entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson. “I’ve never actually seen myself as a businessman, strangely.” Sir Richard Branson’s interview with Gay Byrne is full of surprises and contradictions. A non-believer, who envies the faith of his friends, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter; the founder of a planet-saving “Carbon War Room”, whose own planes are burning up the atmosphere; and an adventurer whose lust for life has nearly cost him his own.