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BBC Proms 2021

Friday, BBC Two

Conductor Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra kick off a six-week season with Vaughan Williams's ravishing Serenade to Music and Poulenc's dazzling Organ Concerto. They're joined by the BBC Singers and a cast of soloists, including soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn, tenor Allan Clayton and organist Daniel Hyde, for a celebration of the power of music to comfort and uplift. Katie Derham presents from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Matt Baker: Our farm in the Dales

Saturday, Channel 4

Documentary following the Countryfile presenter as he and his family come to the rescue on his parents' farm in the Durham hills, after his mother suffers an accident.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

ITV, Sunday

Adolescent wizard Harry is unexpectedly chosen to represent Hogwarts School in a prestigious magical tournament, despite being legally too young to enter. Along with charming sixth-year student Cedric Diggory, Harry takes on the champions of two other magical academies visiting the school, facing deadly monsters in a series of death-defying challenges. Meanwhile, the followers of the dreaded Lord Voldemort plot to restore their master to the land of the living.

Secrets of the Museum

Tuesday, BBC Two

Curator Kate from the Theatre and Performance Department works on an ambitious exhibition celebrating Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. At its heart, she hopes to recreate the famous Mad Hatter's tea party, as seen in the famous 1966 film. Meanwhile, for print curator Gill, it's a dream come true when the museum acquires a rare set of prints from Lucian Freud.

Lucan

Wednesday, ITV

First of a two-part drama written by Jeff Pope, based on the life of flamboyant aristocrat Lord Lucan. In 1974, with escalating gambling debts and his marriage collapsing, Lucan becomes obsessed with regaining custody of his children. On one fateful night in November that year, the youngsters' nanny Sandra Rivett is bludgeoned to death in the basement of the family home in London's Belgravia district - and the earl is never seen again. Starring Rory Kinnear, with Christopher Eccleston, Catherine McCormack, Michael Gambon, Paul Freeman, Rupert Evans, Gemma Jones and Leanne Best.