TV highlights 05/12/2011

The Big Bread Experiment 7pm, BBC2 In towns such as Bedale in north Yorkshire the mill was once central to the community. The rise of convenient, sliced bread in the 1960s put paid to that, however, and the decline of communal breadmaking, coupled with gentrification, has also affected community life. This experiment is to do with restoring a sense of community, as well as seeing if a group of local women, untutored in breadmaking, can reach professional standards with the assistance of two artisan bakers. David Stubbs RBS – Inside The Bank That Ran Out Of Money 9pm, BBC2 When it was founded, the Royal Bank of Scotland was all prudence. It would later become the biggest bank in the world, making billions through its investments. Then it all went spectacularly wrong, and needed bailing out by the taxpayer to the tune of a nauseating £20bn. Presiding over its rise and fall was Sir Fred Goodwin, or Fred The Shred, a ruthless accountant whose departure from his previous place of work, says one former chief exec, prompted three days of partying. This illuminating documentary explains how and why it happened. Ben Arnold The Great British Property Scandal 9pm, Channel 4 The UK is currently undergoing its worst housing crisis since the second world war. Simultaneously, over one million houses lie empty – 350,000 of which have been unoccupied for more than six months. Rather than building new properties, surely we should be speedily and efficiently refurbishing the ones we already have, and making them permanently fit for the two million families on the housing list? That's architect and presenter George Clarke's argument, in the first of this two-part exposé. Ali Catterall Exposed: Groomed For Sex 9pm, BBC3 The overwhelming majority of UK sex abusers are white males. But in a few hugely contentious and high-profile cases, concentrated almost exclusively in the Midlands and north of England, British Pakistani men have been found grooming young, under-age white girls. Broadcaster Adil Ray attempts to discover the extent, and root of the issue, uncovering complex cultural factors, and some horrifying testimonies en route. But, lest the EDL rubs its hands with glee, in the words of a former multiple-rape victim herself, "This is a handful of people in the community – that's all it is." AJC Timeshift: The Golden Age Of Trams – A Streetcar Named Desire 9pm, BBC4 A cosy, Betjemanesque piece this, eulogising a mode of transport you'll still find running in San Francisco but not in quite the same way here: the tram. Travel in the early 1800s was a bumpy, horse-driven business until an American, George Francis Train, put down rails on which an omnibus could run. So began a flowering of entrepreneurial transport inventions in suburban Britain, which triggers many a misty-eyed reminiscence here from Alan Bennett and Roy Hattersley. Spare a thought for the driver, though: while the passengers relaxed, he was out in all weathers, exposed to the elements, thanks to a major design flaw. John Robinson American Horror Story 10pm, FX It's Halloween at the house of horrors, which means all previous residents – the dead ones, that is – pop round to prepare for a party, including Chad and Patrick, who are using their afterlife to bicker. Fun. Meanwhile Tate is cornered by what appear to be the ghosts of a high school massacre from 15 years ago, who seem to believe he is responsible for their deaths. Shock revelations abound. Rebecca Nicholson