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
Mandalay (poem) Arranged and conducted by Billy May, Speaks's setting appears in Frank Sinatra's album "Come Fly with Me". Kipling's daughter and heiress objected to this version, which had altered Kipling's "Burma girl" into a "Burma broad", the "man", who east of Suez can raise a thirst, into a "cat" and the following "temple-bells" into "crazy bells". Sinatra sang the song in Australia, in 1959, and relayed the story of the Kipling family's objections to the song. Bertolt Brecht referred to Kipling′s poem in his "Mandalay Song", which was set to music by Kurt Weill for "Happy End" and "Rise and Fall