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Maestro: Mary Toomey - Athlete

on BBC Two England

The last of four programmes.
She was little Mary Bignal of Wells; housewife Mary Rand from Henley-on-Thames; Britain's favourite 'pin-up' who leapt to Olympic Gold in Tokyo. Mary talks to Ron Pickering about those days, and her life today as Mary Toomey in California.

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Subject:
Mary Toomey
Interviewer:
Ron Pickering

BBC Two England

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