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
Willem die Madoc maecte Willem die Madoc maecte Willem die Madoc maecte (c.1200 – c.1250; "William-who-made-the-Madoc") is the traditional designation of the author of "Van den vos Reynaerde", a Middle Dutch version of the story of "Reynard the Fox". The name of the author derives from the first line of the poem, where he introduces himself as the same Willem who had previously written a work called "Madoc": <poem>Willem, die Madoc maecte, Daer hi dicken omme waecte, Hem vernoyde so haerde Dat die avonture van Reynaerde In dietsche onghemaket bleven. (Willem, who wrote Madoc, As he often took such care It troubled him so