Terrestrial Panorama, BBC1, 8.30pm Putting your closest relative into a nursing home is traumatic enough. One Panorama interviewee, whose mother had to enter a home after a stroke, describes it as the "ultimate in trust". But she was to die a terrible and painful death, because she was severely neglected. Panorama has discovered various cases in which people have been unsafe and unprotected in nursing homes. Instead of being looked after, vulnerable, elderly people were insulted, neglected, roughly handled or assaulted. A former care worker talks about nursing home residents being sworn at and physically abused, and care records for the official regulator being made up, ready for inspections.

Terrestrial Panorama, BBC1, 8.30pm
Putting your closest relative into a nursing home is traumatic enough. One Panorama interviewee, whose mother had to enter a home after a stroke, describes it as the "ultimate in trust". But she was to die a terrible and painful death, because she was severely neglected. Panorama has discovered various cases in which people have been unsafe and unprotected in nursing homes. Instead of being looked after, vulnerable, elderly people were insulted, neglected, roughly handled or assaulted. A former care worker talks about nursing home residents being sworn at and physically abused, and care records for the official regulator being made up, ready for inspections.


Tonight with Trevor McDonald ITV1, 8pm
Sir Trevor visits a Dutch clinic to discover why the NHS is losing the battle against deadly infections which Europeans have eradicated.


Rough Diamond BBC1, 9pm
Miffed at losing Aidan's land, millionaire poltroon Charlie Carrick makes life difficult for his former trainer - and now rival - by bringing in the Turf Club inspector. Aidan needs at least five horses to keep his trainers' licence - so bejaysus if Carrick doesn't buy the two horses that Aidan was recently training.


Digital
Living with the Future BBC4, 8.30pm
Sitting on the side of the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, is the Old Zoo. While the house is unashamedly modern, it has a traditional twist: it is clad entirely in thatch. Simon Davis encounters an architect-client relationship that was tested to the limit, discovering whether all the pain and heartache was worth it. Simon spends the weekend with property developers Gerald and Linda Hitman. The Hitmans needed a spacious, modern house that would accommodate themselves and their respective step-children and decided they would like a home with two separate wings for the adults and the children. Iranian architects Farajadi And Farajadi won the competition to design a house to fit the bill.


Thin, More4, 10pm Eating disorders affect five million Americans, and more than 10% of those diagnosed with anorexia nervosa will die from it. Seeking to put a human face to these sobering statistics, photographer Lauren Greenfield went inside Renfrew, a Florida treatment centre, to tell the stories of four women who are literally dying to be thin.


The Simple Life E4, 11.20pm Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie reunite, and the two socialites are challenged to play wife in various LA homes. The girls strap on 35-pound pregnancy suits and take the place of a nine-month-pregnant housewife. Shopping and parties are out of the question as Paris and Nicole struggle to do the housework and raise a three-year-old - although they do manage a visit to a strip club.


Radio
Book of the Week: The Lemon Tree, Radio 4, 9.45am
At the heart of Sandy Tolan's novel is a compelling dialogue between a Palestinian man, Bashir and a Jewish woman, Dalia. They meet when he returns to the house his family fled in the 1940s at the end of the British occupation of Palestine. Now Dalia lives there, and the encounter for each creates a tumult of emotions about their histories and cultures.