But could you start us off by just saying a little bit about your own story and why on earth you decided to start doing that?

Well, I was, um, I would class- I would have classified myself in my teens and my 20s as a resolute agnostic.

And, um, I really thought agnosticism was the only intellectually honest position you could take about this.

Um, I never regarded myself as an atheist because I realized that atheism was a faith position.

Um, but I, I really thought you couldn't know for certain one way or the other.

Uh, so that was my view right up until my late 30s.

Uh, when I got to my late 30s, I thought, "You know, it would be nice to come to some kinda clear conclusions on this." Um, my thoughts were that, y- that, you know, if it's a load of old baloney, I wanted to know it was a load of old baloney, and I could forget about it and get on with living my earthly life.

... right across to people who have got no idea who he is and what he claimed?