Remembrance Sunday was marked a month early when the BBC's Countryfile team landed in the Dean.

Presenter Matt Baker arrived at Holy Trinity Church on Harrow Hill to film at the War Memorial which stands in the churchyard, as part of a programme marking Remembrance Day.

He also interviewed author Freda Margrett, from Cinderford, whose father fought in the First World War, and whose two brothers were both killed in the Second World War.

Her father, when told that both men were missing and presumed killed, collapsed and died through the shock of receiving the news.

Freda recently published a book having transcribed her father's war time diary called Dad's Diary – A Family at War.

The TV crew also filmed the rare tubular bells in the 18th century church which were fitted in memory of the 47 villagers who had died in the First World War.

Rector the Rev Nick Bromfield said: "The BBC team were looking for angles on wartime stories and ultimately chose to film here.

"The Memorial in the churchyard has an awful lot of names on it – the wars would have affected every person in the village."

Church warden Mike Garland said: "It's very much an honour for this church to be chosen for the filming."

The Countryfile team was last in the Forest in August when they filmed a programme about pioneering wildlife film The Major, a film about a once famous Forest oak chopped down near the Speech House.