A pastoral image of rural England still defines the modern sense of English national identity, according to a new book by Sir Roy Strong, the historian and former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A.

Today's Justin Webb went with him to the Kentish Weald to see why our relation to the land is a "reassuring illusion" that still brings us "happiness and joy".

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