Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A Patchwork Journey Through My Life... so far
Kenneth Radley
Kenneth Radley's Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A patchwork journey through my life... so far - is a richly layered, deeply personal memoir told in an engaging patchwork style - weaving together reflections from across six decades of an expansive...
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United States
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Kenneth Radley's Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A patchwork journey through my life... so far - is a richly layered, deeply personal memoir told in an engaging patchwork style - weaving together reflections from across six decades of an expansive life. From his early life we are taken through some rapid development in the 1960s. Then the tectonic socio-cultural shifts throughout the 1970s. And later appearing in more than 30 feature films, performing as B1 in the highly successful and culturally iconic Bananas in Pyjamas, to selling wine, cab driving, fronting a hard-hitting rock band in the Melbourne pub scene, teaching, building houses, playing and umpiring Australian football and navigating family life within the creative industries - Radley crafts a collection of vivid vignettes that balance wit, philosophical inquiry, and grounded realism. Readers interested in Australian cultural history, performance, and television and film will find rare, behind-the-scenes gems throughout. Anecdotes involving the Bananas years, working on set from an actor's perspective, creative struggles, the joy and passion in his work. The reader is treated to some fascinating encounters with industry characters that offer unique insights and deep reflections. The regular moments of humour feel lived-in rather than performed, full of well-timed understatement and irony. This work offers so much more than a timeline of events; it becomes a meditation on memory, cultural change, identity, work, and the intersections between art, family life and self-discovery. It is a fascinating, authentic and heartfelt piece reflecting the complexity, fun and humour of a man that is truly thankful for his life and filled with genuine love and appreciation of those close to him. it is quite a journey... so far. Duration - 7h 7m. Author - Kenneth Radley. Narrator - Kenneth Radley. Published Date - Friday, 17 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Kenneth Radley ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:12
1 about the author
Duration:00:00:12
2 dedication
Duration:00:00:14
3 entree
Duration:00:06:36
4 the first abc open day in paramatta, 1994
Duration:00:01:23
5 the old man and the sea
Duration:00:05:41
6 what’s going on over there
Duration:00:06:17
7 music
Duration:00:01:19
8 the blues
Duration:00:02:25
9 short cut road
Duration:00:04:30
10 sneak preview
Duration:00:04:00
11 john farnham
Duration:00:03:56
12 cold chisel
Duration:00:04:08
13 the thrill of performance
Duration:00:02:30
14 jazz
Duration:00:01:48
15 the power of the dog
Duration:00:04:06
16 the arrival of the script, the welcome pack, production info…
Duration:00:03:27
17 isotunes
Duration:00:01:38
18 driving four wheels and a full tank
Duration:00:03:31
19 i’ve been called an ‘overthinker’… let me ponder that
Duration:00:01:35
20 cars
Duration:00:02:31
21 sidney myer music bowl, melbourne 1995
Duration:00:00:52
22 holden 1964 eh wagon
Duration:00:02:08
23 vespa 125cc (1959) revised
Duration:00:00:18
24 my first memory and some more…
Duration:00:03:52
25 evidence based behavioural psych exploration can be fun!
Duration:00:04:24
26 closing ceremony of the olympic games, sydney 2000
Duration:00:01:07
27 art can sneak up on us
Duration:00:03:36
28 cut to 35 years hence…
Duration:00:03:44
29 yamaha 360cc enduro
Duration:00:00:38
30 bill hunter
Duration:00:12:33
31 reservoir, a high board, miss vagg, research and… where actually is my sister
Duration:00:14:16
32 flashback to reservoir pool high diving board… summer, circa 1964
Duration:00:03:31
33 1969 bushfires
Duration:00:07:14
34 vw superbug 1600… and a call from sydney
Duration:00:02:23
35 flying to various cities with nicholas for the open days
Duration:00:00:47
36 john jarratt & fields of fire
Duration:00:03:30
37 the kombi
Duration:00:05:26
38 the kombi era
Duration:00:01:09
39 & 40 cut to late afternoon winter, woolamai beach, phillip island
Duration:00:04:43
41 the diesel
Duration:00:04:23
42 judy davis & the detailed work of an expert
Duration:00:05:44
43 the night the angels came…
Duration:00:09:39
44 the coffee shop revised
Duration:00:02:02
45 honda 100cc street bike and bruce
Duration:00:07:03
46 priscilla… and a gently flowing river of experience
Duration:00:02:00
47 martin sacks
Duration:00:08:18
48 the cinematographer is your friend (or should be…)
Duration:00:03:30
49 leadership
Duration:00:01:34
50 a little more on leadership… janet
Duration:00:14:39
51 terence stamp misses the target… or does he
Duration:00:13:48
52 war! what did you do it for
Duration:00:10:27
53 the last goodbye
Duration:00:05:24
54 the legacy of my father
Duration:00:03:01
55 yamaha xt 250cc (1985) roadtrail bike
Duration:00:01:50
56 footy
Duration:00:17:55
57 ten love! for gerard kennedy
Duration:00:11:13
58 true stories from the cabs… (all my stories are true…)
Duration:00:09:17
59 are you vacant and a chance for a man to reflect
Duration:00:05:45
60 a change of direction
Duration:00:01:03
61 cellarmasters… the wine period
Duration:00:07:18
62 farewell sydney after 15 years
Duration:00:03:01
63 the kiss
Duration:00:21:27
64 dirt blocks and bridge timbers
Duration:00:03:50
65 aboriginal history a lingering blight revised
Duration:00:03:48
66 david gulpilil
Duration:00:21:25
67 bush beat live music explodes into my life
Duration:00:03:00
68 the susan street incident
Duration:00:08:15
69 the art of the stunt fight
Duration:00:05:46
70 holden captiva 2007
Duration:00:03:16
71 the oils melbourne cup day – sometime in the 90s
Duration:00:01:37
72 johnny depp
Duration:00:08:17
73 mitsubishi triton twin cab
Duration:00:02:36
74 trumper oval
Duration:00:07:05
75 unsettling encounters and the call to 000
Duration:00:04:09
76 vw golf gti 2006
Duration:00:01:26
77 when the starlight foundation came to the studio
Duration:00:01:47
78 the atrium
Duration:00:06:52
79 bananas; some of the journey
Duration:00:13:28
80 & 81 a few more banana notable moments michael
Duration:00:01:03
82 the final hurrah…
Duration:00:01:39
83 the russian mafia and the bananas
Duration:00:05:24
84 a small educational segue…
Duration:00:03:28
85 anyways… back to bananas…
Duration:00:02:09
86 b2 finally loses his shit!
Duration:00:01:40
87 a random gallery…
Duration:00:02:13
88 outro
Duration:00:01:08
89 acknowledgements
Duration:00:03:31
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:13