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by Nick Pourgourides (Amazon £7.99, 133pp) One OF the joys of lockdown for me has been watching all the old classic Kenneth More films on Talking Pictures TV. These include the Doctor farces, with More ebullient alongside Dirk Bogarde and James Robertson Justice, and North West Frontier, where More shares a railway carriage with Lauren Bacall, clanking across remote outposts of the Empire. More was the type of Englishman who was always jovial and competent and courageous. He’s the chap you’d want at your side if the ship is sinking, the plane is in flames, or the steam train is under attack from angry locals. He was never snooty or coldly ironic, never irascible or eccentric. ....