Graham Norton's guests this week are rock legend and U2 frontman Bono who has written frankly about his remarkable life in ‘Surrender’; pop superstar Taylor Swift promoting her new album ‘Midnights’; Oscar-winning Eddie Redmayne starring in true crime thriller ‘The Good Nurse’; and BBC presenter and former Lioness Alex Scott whose sporting memoir is ‘How (Not) To Be Strong’. Plus, music from Lady Blackbird who performs her new single ‘Feel It Comin.’

Bono has recently been getting praise for his autobiography in which he talks about everything from growing up in Dublin and getting his big break when he answered an ad aspiring drummer Larry Mullen had pinned on the wall to dubious haircuts. He talks in the book about the fact that when he thinks back to his unforgettable breakthrough performance at Live Aid in 1985 the main thing he thinks about is how terrible his mullet looks.

I wonder if Bono will explain how he ended up with such a strange name - I recall reading that it was after he saw an advert for hearing aids called Bono Vox hearing aids in a shop window in a Dublin high street when he was a teenager, but this could be an urban myth. Irish comedian Eleanor Tiernan is a fan. In an interview with BTJ in 2018 she said he was her favourite non-comedy, non-family person: "In my homeland of Ireland bono has been a figure of ridicule. I used to join in with the jibes until I asked myself recently what the singer had done so deserve such treatment and could not come up with anything apart from his sincere desire to do good."

There is also a story in the book about meeting Barack Obama and dozing off after a drink in the White House. Apparently he has a habit of dozing off easily. Let's hope he doesn't doze off on Graham Norton's comfy sofa.

Graham Norton should be able to compare notes with Bono. As well as writing a novel recently set in Ireland Norton grew up in Ireland around the same time as the charismatic U2 singer so they should have quote a bit in common when it comes to memories of Ireland.

The Graham Norton Show, Friday, October 28, 10.40pm, BBC One.Picture: So Television