What is the orchestral song in the london marthon bbc coverage every year?

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Have just copied this from a web site having done a google search.  Hope it answers your question - it appears it is 'The Trap."

"Strange then that Goodwin's tune, The Trap, has been used by the BBC as the signature music for the London Marathon for the past 20 years.

  Ron Goodwin  

Born 17 Feb, 1925 in Plymouth, England

1943: Joined music publishers Campbell, Connelly & Co

1945: Head of arranging dept at Bron Associated Publishers, writes music for Petula Clark and Jimmy Young

1950: Joins Parlophone, works with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Sophia Loren

1960: Starts writing film scores for MGM - composes music for Where Eagles Dare, 633 Squadron, Battle of Britain, Frenzy et al

Wins his third Ivor Novello award, this time for lifetime achievement  

It is even stranger when you consider it was written with Oliver Reed canoeing down a Canadian stream in mind, not thousands of runners pounding the streets of London.

Goodwin penned The Trap for the 1966 film of the same name. Starring Reed, as a grizzly Canadian backwoodsman, the film was a moderate, if not enduring, success.

Goodwin's ditty, however, has become THE music for marathon running.

And if the hundreds of letters to The Radio Times after marathon weekend are anything to go by, it remains a very popular piece of writing. "