Country strife: can we learn anything from those posh toffs out of town?

New doc Land Of Hope And Glory - British Country Life looks behind the bucolic splendour of the magazine and its readers. But there are simmering tensions under those gilets

And so to an alien world that lives side-by-side with our own, where people speak in accents so plummy they sound like they're in a specialised and intense course of speech therapy, where men legitimately wear bowler hats, and the women use the word "jolly" without irony. That world is the countryside, of course, the beautiful British countryside. And that's what Land Of Hope And Glory - British Country Life (Friday, 9pm, BBC2) is all about: our nation's privileged green patches, the bodywarmer-wrapped people who trot about on them, and the staff who fetishise all this at Country Life magazine.

At its core, Land Of Hope And Glory is similar to the Beeb's Inside Tatler series but with very, very little about the actual production of the magazine itself. Instead the doc zips around the UK, alternately meeting too-posh-to-be-real readers, the salt-of-the-earth farmer types who work for them, and the occasional Country Life journo looking around a massive house and saying "extraordinary". Then it's back to the offices in south London, where longstanding editor-in-chief Mark Hedges holds the bridge of his nose and agonises over which particular Oxbridge graduate should be featured in its Girls In Pearls frontispiece.