Suruthi Bala
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600 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Jul
Suruthi Bala’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the spring of 2020, a priest in Rhode Island was arranging a memorial mass for a man named Nicholas Aliverdian.
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Aliverdian was a bit of a minor local celebrity.
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Fifteen years ago, he'd led a dramatic campaign against the abuse and mistreatment of foster children and had exposed some pretty grim goings-on within the state.
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They loved that.
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Yeah.
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He was like, shh, as long as it's not here in the church.
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Now, Aliverdian had always been an eccentric kind of guy and his funeral requests were characteristically extreme.
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His widow was organising the whole thing over the phone from Switzerland, and her demands ranged from grand orchestral symphonies to making sure the state's top-ranking officials were all in attendance.
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Father Bernard Healy was doing his best to accommodate.
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But, as he was pulling together the finishing touches to this mammoth ceremony, he received a phone call from a police officer.
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The officer told the priest that Nicholas Aliverdian was an international fugitive who was wanted in five states for a spree of sexual assaults and large-scale frauds.
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Father Healy was shocked, but there was more to come, because the officer then told him to cancel Aliverdian's Mass.
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Nicholas Alavardian wasn't dead.
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Just one year after this cancelled memorial for Nicholas Aliverdian, a man named Arthur Knight turned up to court in a motorised wheelchair breathing through an oxygen tank, wearing a red silken dressing gown, pyjamas and velvet Prince of Wales slippers.
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I think they have like the... Oh, the Cress.
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The Fleur... What's it called?
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Fleur Elise?
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Fleur Elise?
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I should know.
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The Welsh thing.
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