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
The Bells (play) does what he knows he is doing - acts deliberately but acts automatically, as though impelled by an immense force, against which no resistance is possible." The overture and incidental music for "The Bells" was originally composed by Etienne Singla, Chef d'orchestre of the Théâtre Cluny in Paris for the opera "Le Juif Polonais" in 1869. H L Bateman brought Singla to the Lyceum to arrange his score for "The Bells", and, according to the programme, Singla conducted on the opening night. In future productions Irving deleted many of the musical themes in order to heighten the drama in various