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
Five Bells the scruffy, unruly, unimportant Irishman gives the poem a tender and human character." Inspired by the poem the Australian artist John Olsen completed his painting "Five Bells" on commission in 1963. It was acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1999. The artist also painted "Salute to Five Bells" as a mural for the rear foyer area of the Sydney Opera House concert hall in 1973. The Australian author Gail Jones wrote a novel titled "Five Bells" in 2011, and noted in her acknowledgments: "The first debt of this project is to Kenneth Slessor's elegiac poem, "Five