Petra Bagust
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3,317 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Petra Bagust’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't have to be Pollyanna.
I mean, I'm giving it a nudge, but you don't have to be.
No, you're right.
And I've just been, I'm trying to improve my French and I'm listening to a French podcast and they're on interesting topics.
And the one I've just been listening to is about the things that lead to true happiness.
And it's a very famous Frenchman who is a Buddhist monk as well.
He's also a scientist and can't remember his name, but he's written a number of books about
And he talks about the eight things that actually do make us genuinely happy.
But one of the key points that the podcaster talks about is actually that happiness and joy are contagious.
So deliberate acts of spreading a little bit of joy and of kindness, and kindness itself is, of course, contagious.
And in a way, and I sort of describe the irony of kindness as in some ways it's a slightly selfish act because the evidence shows that acts of kindness improve the well-being of the person who is being kind as well as those who are receiving perhaps the gift of kindness.
So it seems like a win-win to me.
It feels like a win-win to me as well.
I'm picking up what you're putting down.
Can I ask about your mum?
She was a schoolteacher.
What kind of a woman was she?
What were some of the gifts that she gave you?
Oh, my mum was a fabulous person and unfortunately we lost her too early.
She died from breast cancer in 2008 and in her, well, sort of mid to late 60s.
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