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Hope from despair

BALI 2002, TVNZ 1, Sunday, 8.10pm

here are any number of potholes into which an Australian-made drama about the deadly 2002 terrorist bombings at Bali’s Kuta Beach could trip. An early attempt to tell the story foundered in 2005, when a subsequent series of Islamist terror attacks ended the production after only 10 days’ shooting. But the most likely hazards lie in the multiple sensitivities

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