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
Passing By the Earth should push open that sunlight-uncontaminated yet-to-be constructed city gate and still can find no place to rest</poem> <poem> do you think that your departed face could ever find my unborn pair of eyes?</poem> "Scent Dance I", "Scent Dance II", "Scent Dance III" and "Scent Dance IV" belong to the same catena, which is inspired from Xuntian He’s poem "Passing By the Earth" (1999). Passing By the Earth "Passing By the Earth" is a poem by He Xuntian in 1999. Its chief subject matter is "Every single living human being who encountered the first ray of light of this new century