Summary
Alex Chadwick's story of two men whose troubles and tragedies find respite in the raging rapids of Cataract Canyon.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional. |
| 0:06.0 | Unfictional is KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. It's a part of KCRW's program of stories and original documentaries. |
| 0:13.6 | It's a part of KCRW's independent producer project. |
| 0:17.4 | And in 2011, we broadcast an episode that documented |
| 0:21.1 | a river rafting journey, featuring two guys in trouble. |
| 0:25.7 | One of them was climate activist Tim de Christopher, who at the time was facing a prison sentence. |
| 0:31.6 | He'd placed a bid at a government auction that was selling mineral |
| 0:34.4 | rights from federal land, but he had no intent to pay. For Tim to Christopher, it was a |
| 0:40.1 | spontaneous act of climate civil disobedience, but for the government it was a crime. |
| 0:45.7 | During the trial, de Christopher's lawyers were prohibited from presenting evidence that his actions |
| 0:50.2 | had been of the environmental movement. The other man getting ready to go down the river |
| 1:05.1 | was veteran public radio journalist Alex Chadwick. He had been going through |
| 1:09.7 | personal difficulties and challenges of his own, most notably the death of his wife the |
| 1:14.7 | previous year. The hope was that this trip in the beautiful Green River of Utah might help the |
| 1:20.9 | healing process. After this episode ran the first time, |
| 1:25.0 | Tim to Christopher was sentenced to two years in prison |
| 1:28.0 | in a $10,000 fine. |
| 1:30.0 | And last week, the day before Earth Day, he was released. |
| 1:34.0 | Today on Unfictional, we're going to listen to the original story of that rafting journey, |
| 1:39.0 | and then afterward hear a conversation recorded just a few days ago between Alex Chadwick and Tim de Christopher |
| 1:45.3 | about his plans now. From KCRW.com, it's unfictional. This is called the dissent. |
| 2:00.6 | Prison |
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