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G2 at 20

Launched in 1992, the Guardian's daily features section G2 is celebrating its twentieth birthday with a special commemorative edition
  • The first cover and the cilla cover

    Cover story: 20 years of G2 fronts

    From Sarajevo to Johnny Depp and the moon landings, the best, funniest and most controversial G2 covers from the last two decades

  • Thora Hird in April 1999.

    'I don't need this crap': 20 years of G2 interviews – the highlights

    From a grumpy Ariel Sharon to a splenetic Tracey Emin, some of the most entertaining, controversial – and cringe-making – encounters from the Guardian's daily features section, G2

  • Unleashing G2: it was 20 years ago

    A daily magazine within the serious pages of a broadsheet newspaper? What was the Guardian thinking? Alan Rusbridger recalls the excitement of launching the much-imitated features section in October 1992

    • Long good reads: the best features from 20 years of G2

    • Twenty years of G2 stunts

    • 'There wasn't any question of Fellini sleeping anywhere but in bed with me'

  • Thora Hird in April 1999.

    The Monday interview: Thora Hird

    She made her stage debut at eight weeks old and 87 years later, she is television actress of the year