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 Bells" (1939), which returned to me, like a remembered song, one midnight on a ferry in the centre of Circular Quay". The text of the poem is reproduced on a banister in Kenneth Slessor Park in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood. Five Bells "Five Bells" (1939) is a meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. It was originally published as the title poem in the author's collection "Five Bells : XX Poems", and later appeared in numerous poetry anthologies. The poem is a meditative piece based on a ship's bell ringing five bells - which occurs at either 2:30, 6:30,