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 (poem) theme of mourning over a lost wife, courted in sledge, married and then killed in a fire as the husband looks on. The tolling of the iron bells reflects the final madness of the grief-stricken husband. The sounds of the verses, specifically the repetitive ""bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells"," lie on a narrow line between sense and nonsense, causing a feeling of instability. Poe uses the word "tintinnabulation", apparently a coinage of his own, based on the Latin word for "bell", "tintinnabulum". The series of "bells" echo the imagined sounds of the various bells, from the silver bells