Norman B.  Norman Batley (aka Norman B.) is a radio personality who has hosted and programmed award-winning shows for stations in the United Kingdom, Seattle, Washington and Tampa, Florida. He is also a business entrepreneur who has created, managed and owned successful restaurant concepts in the Tampa Bay area. Norman B. continues to program, write, edit and host "Life Elsewhere", a weekly show about art, media and culture. The show is syndicated to various affiliates including WMNF. The podcast is heard on NPROne, Apple Podcasts & Mixcloud. He also produces and hosts "Life Elsewhere Music", a weekly show on music which often features conversations with noted figures in the music industry, heard on various radio and internet stations such as WNRN, NWCZ, Internet Radio Network, and Cornucopia. Norman B.'s career has spanned the worlds of broadcasting, advertising and hospitality. After studying Graphic Design and graduating from Richmond College in London, his first position was as a graphic designer for BBC News. He later began working as Art Director for EMI Records, working on album covers, publicity and branding campaigns for some of the top recording artists. Later he left EMI to begin his own boutique agency specializing in branding and promotion for the music and fashion industries. A client based in Seattle, Washington led to an extensive stay in America which in turn resulted in an opportunity to be a guest on a local radio show, talking about the new music coming out of the UK. His radio appearance attracted enough interest from listeners and management alike to prompt Norman to explore a regular radio time slot. For several years, "Life Elsewhere" was a syndicated program, going out to college stations throughout the U.S. It later became a permanent feature on station, KCMU (KCMU became KEXP-FM 90.3FM in April 2001). "Life Elsewhere" morphed into a weekly show for the pirate station Phoenix Radio out of London. Norman B. launched the reggae show "Positive Vibrations" for KCMU. The show could be heard on Saturday mornings. "'All things considered, 'Positive Vibrations' may be the best show on local radio," wrote Bart Becker of The Seattle Weekly. "The host Norman Batley is a chatty, funny, informative Britisher." Norman B.’s first foray into commercial radio was in 1984 for top-rated album-oriented rock station KXRX, where he produced and hosted "Seattle Blues," a Sunday night show that drew a large and devoted following.