London 2012 Festival – the highlights

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare is performed in Juba Arabic by the South Sudan Theatre Company, with scene description in English.

duration: 150 mins

Watch a recording of the rarely seen Helicopter String Quartet, part of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht, which was performed in August 2012

duration: 60 mins

Tracey Emin in conversation with Stephen Fry at Margate's Turner Contemporary

duration: 85 mins

Creating the Spectacle is a groundbreaking series of performances by artist Sue Austin in her self-propelled underwater wheelchair

duration: 90 secs

Watch the full Scissor Sisters performance at the Tower of London as part of BT River of Music

duration: 65 mins

Immaculate tanzjonglage inspired by the work of Pina Bausch

duration: 5 mins

The 50th anniversary performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral

The story of AfroCubism, a supergroup which took 16 years to finally get together, combined with highlights of their concert at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall

duration: 17 mins

Using hill-running as a conduit, this film explores the symbiotic relationship between the body and landscape, the balance between nature and machine, and the intersection between internal and external experience

duration: 5 mins

Watch a film about how a new frieze for the Whitechapel Gallery in London by artist Rachel Whiteread was made

duration: 15 mins

A riverboat, perched high and dry on the rooftops. Artist Fiona Banner and architect David Kohn talk about their latest collaboration

duration: 4 mins