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.
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