It’s that time of the week again.
The time when we as a nation come together to discover who will be shoved into our respective living rooms via the medium of talk show banter.
The Graham Norton Show is off this week due to Children in Need, so there are no guests to report. Sorry.
Ryan Tubridy, however, has a full house on this Friday 16 November, and here’s what that looks like…
The Late Late Show
Frames man Glen Hansard is on board to discuss maybe his most ambitious undertaking to date – an audacious 2,500 kilometre voyage from Ireland to northern Spain.
That journey is depicted in new documentary film Camino Voyage, which saw Hansard flanked by musician Brendan Begley, artist Liam Holden, stonemason Brendan Moriarty and writer and poet Danny Sheehy.
Actress Victoria Smurfit, meanwhile, will take to the Late Late couch alongside her daughter Eve to discuss the 14-year-old daughter’s eye condition.
Eve was diagnosed with Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy, which eventually leads to blindness. Since then they have been working with Fighting Blindness Ireland to raise awareness.
With rent in Dublin now 36% higher than during the boom a decade ago, the show will explore what can be done to help the rental sector in Ireland with an expert panel including Room To Improve host Dermot Bannon, Karl Deeter of Irish Mortgage Brokers, and Linda Daly, editor of Sunday Times property supplement Move.
Elsewhere on the show, Niamh Shaw will give an update on fulfilling her dreams to be the first Irish woman in space, Taken Down actress Blessing Mayo and her daughter Victoria Chihumura will provide insight into their time in the direct provision system, and Dogs Trust will highlight the harm associated with buying dogs from bad breeders.
Dancing With The Stars judge Julian Benson returns to the Late Late to talk about the Cystic Fibrosis foundation he is setting up, and why he’s putting his best food forward to organise a charity ball to raise funds for the disorder.
Music comes from Hermione Hennessy.
The Late Late Show is on RTÉ One tonight – Friday 16 November – at 9.35pm
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