COMING from “God’s Own Country”, I was bound to be interested in this, although I’m not sure why anyone would need Adrian Edmondson to point out the obvious delights of England’s best county.

Edmondson hasn’t done much of note since The Young Ones way back when there were only about two channels and, on reflection, that hasn’t aged well at all and probably wasn’t that funny in the first place.

The powers that be clearly thought hailing from Yorkshire and being a comedian of sorts more than qualified Edmondson for presenting this series, even though I, and I suspect many thousands of others, would have done it for far cheaper if only they’d thought of asking.

Anyway, as you would expect, the scenery is beautiful and the people marvellous — funny, engaging and generous to a fault, like most salt-of-the-earth Yorkshire Dales folk. Obviously, I had to move away as I didn’t fit in!

Strangely, this may be Yorkshire life, but not as I knew it. Edmondson, an unengaging presenter, thankfully drops any attempt to be funny, but is little more than a voice-over for what is a largely disappointing programme.

Instead of real people, he visits Bolton Castle and chats with its well-to-do owner, who at least has the decency to admit he is in a privileged position.

Then it’s off to the Yorkshire Show, which is fair enough, and a chat with anyone he can find who may match the Dales stereotype — accent as thick as treacle and a penchant for showing prize cattle. It’s a sunny day and there’s a carnival atmosphere, which is not as I remember it. It was rain, traffic jams and grumpy farmers back in the day.

A young lad learns how to shear a sheep and, despite looking like he’s about to break the animal’s leg, just about succeeds.

This is quite a long series, so maybe they were struggling a bit, but Edmondson in no way succeeded in getting into people’s minds or finding out what made them tick.

Instead, it was just a pleasant jaunt around a green and pleasant land.