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
Tubular Bells "Tubular Bells III". The opening is also quoted directly in the song "Five Miles Out" from the album of the same name, and the song also features his "trademark" instrument, "Piltdown Man" (referring to his singing like a caveman, first heard on "Tubular Bells"). "Tubular Bells" can be seen as the first of a series of albums continuing with "Tubular Bells II" (1992), "Tubular Bells III" (1998) and "The Millennium Bell" (1999). In 2003 Oldfield released "Tubular Bells 2003", a re-recording of the original "Tubular Bells" with updated digital technology and several "corrections" to what he saw as flaws in