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 Fly (poem) die", a conclusion to which Paul Miner comments: "Brain-death is real death". The Fly (poem) "The Fly" is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection "Songs of Experience" in 1794. It was set to music in 1965 by Benjamin Britten as part of his song cycle "Songs and Proverbs of William Blake". Esperanza Spalding recorded this poem on her 2010 album Chamber Music Society. Blake printed the poem with the text set in the branches of trees, an image of a nurse and a toddler in the foreground, and a