Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, Mammoth Cloning, Fareed Zakaria

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Colm Toibin discusses the writing of former American poet laureate Elizabeth Bishop. Beth Shapiro, an American evolutionary molecular biologist, considers how to clone a mammoth. Matthew Sweet is also joined by Fareed Zakaria, the host of CNN's foreign affairs programme. Fareed Zakaria has published In Defense of a Liberal Education. Beth Shapiro's book is called How to Clone a Mammoth: the Science of De-Extinction Colm Toibin is the author of On Elizabeth Bishop. He has also written the introduction to sons + fathers - An anthology of words and images. Producer: Fiona McLean (Image: Colm Toibin, October 10, 2014 in New York City. Photo copyright: Bryan Bedder / Getty Images / The New Yorker).