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In the media

 * Heavy metal band Black Sabbath rented Clearwell Castle to write and record their fifth album, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath in 1973. The band rehearsed in the castle dungeon for inspiration.
 * In 1998 the area was on national news as it was going through a bad heroin epidemic and several young people fatally overdosed within a short period of time.
 * Many TV and film projects have been filmed at Clearwell Caves, including the 2005 Christmas special of Doctor Who.
 * In 2006, Coleford's St. John's Street was featured in a newspaper/magazine advert for the Renault Clio.
 * Scenes from the 2007 film Outlaw were filmed in Coleford.
 * The novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows contains a chapter that is set in the Forest of Dean. It also appears in the first of two films of the same name.
 * The autobiography of WWII veteran Colin Hall Dropped In It includes a chapter on his struggle to provide for a new wife and son in the undeveloped Forest of Dean in the late 1940s.
 * BBC Big Read 2003 Britain's favourite book winner The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien was championed by the survival expert Ray Mears, who presented the book from Puzzlewood.
 * The BBC and ITV have filmed television series in and around the forest. The early 1980s science-fiction drama Blake's 7 used several locations; an episode of the Steven Moffat revival of Doctor Who has also filmed in the area. More recently, scenes from the BBC drama series Merlin were shot in the Forest. In the first series of ITV sci-fi thriller Primeval, the forest features prominently as several prehistoric creatures escape into the world through an anomaly deep in the forest and it is also where the wife of main character Nick Cutter had disappeared into.
 * The BBC nature programme Springwatch filmed the wild boar in 2009.
 * Parts of Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven (1978) take place, and were filmed, in the Forest of Dean, as do the childhood scenes from his The Singing Detective. His autobiographical play Blue Remembered Hills is set in the Forest of Dean.
 * In January 2011, 3000 protesters gathered at a rally organised by Hands off our Forest, to protest against the UK Government's proposed sale of public forests.
 * In July 2014, scenes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens were filmed in Puzzlewood.
 * In Season 2, Episode 5 of the BBC show Killing Eve which aired on May 5, 2019, there is a scene which takes place in the "Forest of Dean".
 * In 1967, John Berger's  sociological  work A Fortunate Man was set in the Forest of Dean. A movie of the same name was filmed in the Forest of Dean in 1972..