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Bryan Cooney talks to sport stars who will one day be remembered as legends.

Bryan Cooney meets top sportsmen and women who today are thought of as great, but who history will consider to be all-time legends of their game.

Stuff of Legends: Series 2

Stuff of Legends: Series 2: Episode 6: Dame Mary Peters

Dame Mary Peters

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Episode 6: Dame Mary Peters

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BBC Radio Scotland - Stuff of Legends, Series 2, Dame Mary Peters

Dame Mary Peters tells Bryan Cooney about Olympic success and surviving death threats.

Bryan Cooney meets sport stars who will one day be remembered as legends. Gold medallist Dame Mary Peters tells Bryan about Olympic success and surviving death threats.

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Dame Mary Peters thrilled the crowds by winning Olympic gold in Munich in 1972. 

Living in Belfast at the height of the troubles her training was often disrupted by acts of terrorism.

In conversation with Bryan Cooney Mary talks of the thrill of success at the Olympics and how she survived death threats back home in Northern Ireland.

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