Bob Harris Country

Radio 2, 7pm

It’s no surprise that the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier was named best new and emerging artist at the Americana Music Awards in Nashville in 2005. What’s amazing is that she was 35 when she wrote her first song. Of course, until that time she was living, rather than just writing, the perfect country song.

Given up at birth by her mother, she was adopted, rebelled, left home at 15, drugged and drank herself towards oblivion and then finally got herself straight. Among the songs she sings tonight is one called I Drink – which happily is now in the past tense.

The Lost Weblog of Scrooby Trevithick

Radio 4, 11pm

The advent of 24-hour drinking may have largely deprived this sort of comedy of its natural constituency – the punter who consumes his bodyweight in Last Orders beer and then staggers off in search of radio-based hilarity – but that doesn’t stop the Beeb from commissioning it.

Frankly, if you’re sober none of it makes much sense, but it appears that the Scrooby of the title (played by the writer of the series, Andy Parsons) has gone missing but has left a series of recordings on his MP3 player, each describing his experience of various lifestyles, some of them alternative and some not.

The impressive list of guest stars includes Dara O’Briain, Frankie Boyle, Marcus Brigstocke and Lucy Porter, proof – if nothing else – that Parsons has some good friends on the stand-up circuit. There’s also an interactive element that involves contacting www.findscrooby.com and suggesting other enterprises for him to “investigate”.

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