Have you been summoned for jury duty and done it? We'd love to know on 2101. We're asking because a third of people summoned for jury duty in 2025 either didn't respond to the request, or didn't turn up at court. That's a dramatic increase from pre-Covid numbers. In 2019, just 13 percent of those summoned failed to report for jury duty .. so what's going on? Shanti Mathias is a freelance journalist based in Christchurch ... she has been crunching the numbers for The Spinoff and joins Jesse to discuss.

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Influenza A is hitting the country hard right now .. some hospitals have set up dedicated flu wards and some elective surgery has been cancelled to deal with the influx of flu patients. Of course it is winter, viruses are super contagious and there's a cold snap so illness is to be expected to some degree, but are there steps you can take to ward off winter illnesses? And is taking Vitamin C one of them? University of Otago's Professor Margreet Vissers chats to Jesse.

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The latest Housing Affordability Report from Cotality has just come out, showing the ratio between house values and household incomes is back to where it was in 2015. Cotality chief economist Kelvin Davidson joins Guyon to discuss.

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Major General John Howard is a retired military leader who was Chief of Defence Intelligence for the NZDF and was also Deputy Director for Commonwealth Integration at the US Defense Intelligence Agency. He talks to Guyon Espiner about Defence Minister Paul Goldsmith cancelling an appearance at a meeting in Canberra with his Australian and Japanese counterparts.

Education Minister Erica Stanford talks to Guyon Espiner about $31 million from the government to convert modern learning environments into traditional classrooms.