Glastonbury 2014 (BBC2,10pm)

THANK God for Glastonbury because the rest of Friday nights are beginning to look as interesting as a host of Knots Landing repeats. The opening festival day alone features Arcade Fire, Elbow, and Lily Allen on the iconic Pyramid Stage, plus Blondie and the Kaiser Chiefs. But it’s rising stars Blackbeard's Tea Party who the region can raise a glass to this afternoon.

The refreshing York-based band of musical buccaneers, have gone down a storm at recent northern gigs since switching from busking to full-time music careers. Formed in 2009, they have released three records, 2009's Heavens To Betsy, 2011's Tomorrow We'll Be Sober and 2013's Whip Jamboree. Last year was their most successful yet, their album release being accompanied by their first British headline tour. During the summer, they performed at numerous festivals, such as Sidmouth, Beverley, Galtres, Broadstairs and Holmfirth, but they could still be found busking on the streets of York too.

"We've never been to Glasto as a band, and none of us have ever been as punters either," explains singer Stuart Giddens. "We're part of the generation that grew up with coverage of Glastonbury on the TV every summer. Just being able to get a ticket always seemed unachievable, so to say that our first trip to Worthy Farm will be to play on one of the main stages is very exciting."

Metallica, Robert Plant and Lana Del Rey also headline as the BBC broadcasts a whopping 250 hours of radio, TV, red button and online streaming, with coverage from the six key music stages.

Festival veterans Mark Radcliffe, Lauren Laverne and Jo Whiley will be giving their verdicts on those highs (the acts) and potential lows (mud slides).

Of course it's all a far cry from the first event in 1970. Farmer Michael Eavis (inspired by the Blues festival at the Bath and West Showground), began a festival of his own, albeit on a smaller scale. Admission was a pound; milk was free from Eavis' farm, and while punters were coming to terms with the recent death of Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan (substituting for the Kinks), Keith Christmas, Stackridge, Al Stewart and Quintessence wowed the 1,500 strong crowd.

A British institution was born.

Fast forward to 2013, and the festival was bigger and better than ever, with the likes of Massive Attack, Dolly Parton and Suzanne Vega ready to rule the farmer’s roost.

The Hunt for Hitler's Missing Millions (Channel 5, 8pm)

WHEN Adolf Hitler shot himself in the early hours of April 29, 1945, he's believed to have died a multi-millionaire. The answers to this massive wealth come from Hermann Rothman, who is telling his story for the first time.

A German Jew who fled his native country before the outbreak of the war, Rothman worked for the British Counter Intelligence Corps, and recalls how his unit identified a suspected Nazi – who turned out to be carrying the Fuhrer's last will and testament. Although the document did its best to disguise the extent of Hitler's fortune, it provides the starting point for an investigation into his finances. As experts attempt to “follow the money”, they uncover evidence suggesting Hitler was a shrewd investor in art and property, as well as a serial tax evader.

Gardeners' World (BBC2, 9pm)

JOE Swift gets an exclusive tour of Eton College's private gardens and those “playing fields of England”. Meanwhile, Carol Klein continues her journey around the UK, which this week takes her to West Lothian, where she meets a nurseryman who shares the secrets of his impressive collection of peonies. Monty Don is at Longmeadow, where the garden is growing before our very eyes. But while that's undoubtedly better than everything dying off and withering away, it does leave him with an awful lot of work to do.