clipped from: www.news.com.au A MYSTERY woman who swam to Sir Richard Branson's private island convinced him to call a Sydney community radio station pleading for his help.
FBi Radio, the largest community radio broadcaster in Australia, has been running an "Ask Richard" campaign to hit up the jet-setting entrepreneur for $1 million in emergency funding.
Listeners have thrown themselves out of planes, held busking marathons and made video games to get the music-loving businessman to notice.
But it was a "soaking wet" young woman on his Caribbean island who grabbed Sir Richard's attention.
"The first I heard about (the campaign) was I was having an early evening dinner on Necker Island and this rather soaking wet Australian girl stumbled into the dinner room," Sir Richard told FBi Radio.
"She'd swum two-and-a-half miles from another island to get to our island to tell us all about your campaign," he said.