Dazed and confused days of accident-prone hero Dabell

ByCharlie Mulqueen

The one-time radio operator with the Royal Navy has been particularly prominent in Ireland, where he worked for RTÉ Radio and the then Cork Examiner for a number of years.

These days he is mostly associated with BBC Radio 5 and a string of news agencies and British newspapers. It is largely because of the mountain of work he undertakes that Norman is constantly in a hurry and thus constantly in trouble.