Petra Bagust

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3,300 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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Grey Areas with Petra Bagust · Pushed to my limits | Sir Ashley Bloomfield · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Today, I'm joined by Sir Ashley Bloomfield.

Now, back when he was a doctor, he had a great love of public health and melded that to public service, finding ways to help all of us as a population be more healthy.

His specialty, non-communicable diseases, you know, the ones you can't catch like

diabetes, heart disease.

Well, that was until a global pandemic a few years back.

Of course, we know him as the Director General of Health during the COVID season and those 1pm live television stand ups in which he became an unlikely heartthrob.

Well, now he's a knight of the realm and back into public health and spending time outdoors.

Today we look back at his childhood as well as how we look back as a nation and how to stay well and married in midlife.

Here's Ashley.

So Ashley Bloomfield, it's lovely to have you on Grey Areas.

Thanks for joining me today.

So am I. And it's quite a wonderful thing living in New Zealand, isn't it?

I emailed you.

I found an official email and emailed you and I got a reply and then ran into you at the airport and was like, hey.

And so I love the fact that in New Zealand there's one degree of separation.

Oh, absolutely.

I love that too.

And it doesn't matter where you go, you...

You see people that you know or know who people you know and it's easier to make those connections.

It is something I love about Aotearoa.

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