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The Guardian: G2

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Editors' picks
On a roll: the unstoppable rise of Greggs the bakers

Greggs: it's the bakery chain with more shops in Britain than McDonald's. But it's also a consumer giant that's kept its social conscience
The updo is back

Buns and chignons are so much more elegant than long, tumbling hair. We welcome the return of grownup hairstyles
A very modern midlife crisis

Middle-aged man is spurning the fast car for a flash bike. But is this the tip of a fitness iceberg or just a yearning for expensive gear?
- Midlife crisis? What midlife crisis?

Comment & features p2

Jennifer Aniston as Barbra Streisand? Please!

Why are stars suddenly obsessed with dressing up at their heroes?
Why the next Paralympics will be the greatest ever

Paralympics are at last getting proper TV coverage. About time, says one former competitor
Yet another modern-day Bonnie and Clyde

A pair of suspected killers on the run in the US have been compared to the depression-era bank robbers. They're not the first . . .
Why are over-70s banned from jury duty?

It has been decreed that the ban on over-70s doing jury duty will remain. But many older people would welcome the opportunity

Comment & features p3

Pass notes No 2,828: House prices

Are they going up or down? It seems it is very difficult to tell

Comment & features p5

Celebrities have invaded world affairs

Hadley Freeman: Naomi Campbell and Wyclef Jean have turned the news into the new reality television

Comment & features p10

Hideously diverse Britain: You have to move with the times

Why a Lancashire milkman decided to learn Gujarati

Comment & features p12

That magnificent man in his flying machine

His life story has been a pure Boy's Own adventure – but can Wing Commander Ken Wallis, 94-year-old flying ace, beat another speed record?

Comment & features p17

Notes and queries

From tiny eggs, tiny fruit flies will grow; Do placebos really work? Croydon slugs' favourite veg

Arts p19

Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord

Arj Barker, aka Dave from Flight of the Conchords, set the Fringe alight on his first appearance in 1997. The comic tells Brian Logan why he's returning there a very different man

Arts p20

Laura Solon: My Edinburgh

Alcohol gets on with comedy in a way it doesn't with surgery. But if you're too drunk to see, you're too drunk to listen

Arts p22

Attack of the flyer mash-ups

Penny Dreadful sketch troupe have come up with a cut'n'paste approach to recycling the Edinburgh festival's mountain of flyers, writes Laura Barnett
Payback time with Death of a Theatre Critic

A new play is tapping into the revenge fantasies of any theatre director who's been on the business end of a drubbing, writes Lyn Gardner

Arts p23

Enda Walsh: 'I only operate properly in my imagination'

Enda Walsh thinks bits of Homer's Odyssey are underwritten. So he's livened them up – with a little cookery. Charlotte Higgins meets the playwright

TV and radio in G2 p24

Radio review: Gabby Logan

The cheerful team banter in Logan's show helps to integrate the very different moods and topics the show embraces, writes Elisabeth Mahoney

TV and radio in G2 p25

TV review: Domesday, Madness In The Fast Lane and Help! My House Is Falling Down

Domesday wasn't just history – it shed new light on just how devious those Normans really were, writes John Crace

TV and radio in G2 p26

Tonight's TV highlights

The Normans | Four Sons Versus Four Daughters | Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons and more

TV and radio in G2 p27

Radio head: Promised Land

This tale of a fugitive journalist's escape from Eritrea was one long adrenalin rush, writes Elisabeth Mahoney

Puzzles and cartoon p28

Sudoku 1,637 medium

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9
A hand that still haunts me

I can't stop thinking about one particular incident at the World Series

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