Talking Father’s Day, Family and Faith with Steve Pemberton

06/08/18 • 66 min

Born In June Raised In April: What Adoption Can Teach the World

Taken from his mother at age three, Steve Klakowitz lived a terrifying existence. Caught in the clutches of a cruel foster family and subjected to constant abuse, Steve finds his only refuge in a box of books given to him by a kind stranger. In these books, he discovers new worlds he can only imagine and begins to hope that one day he might have a different life – that one day he will find his true home. This June, our host April Dinwoodie sits down with Steve Pemberton to talk Father’s Day, family and faith and his book and film “ A Chance in the World”.

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