The Passing Bells the conclusion of the war. The series was announced by the BBC in October 2013, along with other programmes that played a part in the BBC World War I centenary season. It was a Red Planet Production with BBC Worldwide as the distributor. Filming took place in Poland. Telewizja Polska and Apple Film Production were co-producers. The series aired in the pre-watershed time-slot of 7pm, and the script was written for a younger audience and family viewing. The title was taken from the first line of Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem, "Anthem for Doomed Youth": "What passing-bells for these who die
Leisure (poem) celebrated opening of his wise little poem "Leisure" has its origins here." Stonesifer traces the central idea to a number of Davies' other poems - "The housebuilder" (from the 1914 "The Bird of Paradise"), "A Happy Life" and "Traffic", as well as "Bells" and "This World". Davies is generally best known for the opening two lines of this poem. It has appeared in most of the anthologies of his work and in many general poem anthologies, including: The poem features, in spoken form, on the album "Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry (Part I)", originally issued in 1960 on the