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Ada Barumé

Audio Producer

Ada is an audio producer predominantly working on The Observer's Slow Newscast investigations. She previously produced the OSF partnership series, What’s Wrong with Democracy?, for Tortoise and before that worked as a video producer for AFP news agency

Photo of Ada Barumé

Ada Barumé

Audio Producer

Ada is an audio producer predominantly working on The Observer's Slow Newscast investigations. She previously produced the OSF partnership series, What’s Wrong with Democracy?, for Tortoise and before that worked as a video producer for AFP news agency

  • Ada Barumé
    Parliament may question water outage investors

    As thousands of households are still without water in Kent and Sussex, South East Water may face cross-examination over pattern of failures

    Sat, 17 Jan 2026

  • Ada Barumé
    Thousands of homes in South East England are without water

    Tens of thousands of people in South East England have been without water for days. What's gone wrong and how much is the water company South East Water, to blame?  Host: Casey Magloire Writer: Ada Barumé Producer:  Amalie Sortland Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett

    8 min • S1, E1280

  • Ada Barumé
    When Donny met Gianni: how the 2026 World Cup sparked an unlikely bromance

    The US president has little interest in football other than the global prestige the tournament can give him. In the Fifa chief he has found a more than willing partner

    Fri, 5 Dec 2025

  • Ada Barumé
    How applicants that failed vetting became Met police officers

    On the 8th of January, the Metropolitan Police released a report into failures in vetting and recruitment of officers involved in misconduct or criminal offences.   

    8 min • S1, E1278

  • Ada Barumé
    In a matter of months Your Party seems to have failed. What needs to be done to make it a viable political force?

    When two former Labour MPs announced a new party this summer, it had all the ingredients to be a big success. Now, it seems to have been overtaken by a rival before it even got started

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025

  • Ada Barumé
    High street gambling

    For years, local authorities in England have found it difficult to stop the spread of slot machine arcades. But that could be about to change. Host: Ada Barumé Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Joe Mee Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

    7 min • S1, E1271

  • Ada Barumé
    The Macrons, the Maga influencer and the ‘trans’ Brigitte conspiracy: US judge to hear lawsuit

    The French first couple will face rightwing commentator Candace Owens in a Delaware court after her bizarre CIA claims

    Sun, 19 Oct 2025

  • Ada Barumé
    A reckoning at the Guildhall school of music

    Like many public institutions across the UK, the Guildhall school of music has had to reckon with a past where abuse by staff was either ignored or dismissed. So when a second former student came forward to tell The Observer's Vanessa Thorpe their story, this time from the 1990s, how would the institution respond?  

    31 min • S1, E339

  • Ada Barumé
    Kennedy’s staff warn that he is dismantling US public health

    Health secretary is undermining decades of effective vaccine and prevention systems

    Tue, 23 Sept 2025

  • Ada Barumé
    The Employment Rights Bill changes sick pay

    On Tuesday the government passed a bill which it's calling the biggest overhaul of workers' rights in decades.   Writer: Poppy Bullard with additional reporting from Ada Barume   Producer: Poppy Bullard   Host: Ada Barume   Episode photography: Joe Mee   Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore  

    6 min • S1, E1258

  • Ada Barumé
    The government is reviewing mental health diagnoses

    Last week the Health Secretary announced a review into the rising rates of ADHD and Autism, as well as other mental health conditions.    Writer: Poppy Bullard   Producer: Poppy Bullard   Host: Ada Barume   Episode photography: Joe Mee   Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore  

    8 min • S1, E1254

  • Ada Barumé
    Russia’s latest offensive in Ukraine

    As the Ukrainian President meets European leaders, Russia has ramped up its attacks on major infrastructure, and last week it claimed it had captured the key strategic city of Pokrovsk.    Writer: Poppy Bullard   Producer: Poppy Bullard   Host: Ada Barume    Episode photography: Sofia Fenton   Executive Producer: Matt Russell  

    7 min • S1, E1251

  • Ada Barumé
    My boy Gianni: Infantino and Trump

    Gianni Infantino is the most powerful man in world football but in the run up to the 2026 men's World Cup, his relationship with US president Donald Trump has grown very friendly. It's led to questions whether Infantino still has football's best interests at heart. Read more of Ada and Rory's investigation here 

    32 min • S1, E336

  • Ada Barumé
    The government has scrapped juries for some trials

    Justice Secretary David Lammy wants to introduce reforms to the justice system as part of a wider plan to tackle unprecedented delays in the court system.    Host: Ada Barumé Writer: Poppy Bullard Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode photography: Joe Mee Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore  

    8 min • S1, E1247

  • Ada Barumé
    Councils are selling off resources to make ends meet

    A recent survey by the Key Cities group found that 60% of their member councils - which include places like Bath, Hull and Medway in Kent - were planning on selling off things like shopping arcades and social clubs to pay for the rising costs of social care.   Host: Ada Barume Writer: Becky Pinnington and Poppy Bullard Producer: Madeleine Parr Episode photography: Joe Mee Executive producer: Matt Russel

    7 min • S1, E1246

  • Ada Barumé
    Rachel Reeves wants to bring the cost of living down

    In the budget Chancellor Rachel Reeves outlined a series of measures aimed at bringing living costs down. But each of those measures must be paid for by taxes elsewhere.    Writer: Poppy Bullard   Producer: Poppy Bullard   Host: Ada Barume   Episode photography: Joe Mee   Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore   

    7 min • S1, E1243

  • Ada Barumé
    Gaza is trapped in limbo

    In the weeks since the ceasefire was agreed, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and more than 600 injured, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.    Host: Ada Barumé Writer: Poppy Bullard Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode photography: Joe Mee Executive Producer: Matt Russell

    9 min • S1, E1242

  • Ada Barumé
    What's Left?

    When Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announced a new political party this summer, it had all the ingredients to be a big success. But a summer of disarray has seen them overtaken by a rival on the left. What happened?

    28 min • S1, E334

  • Ada Barumé
    Catching the Cryptoqueen

    Qian Zhimin has been dubbed the cryptoqueen after UK Police discovered she had approximately £5 billion of stolen investments. But how was she caught?  Host: Ada Barumé Writer: Casey Magloire Producer: Amalie Sortland  Reporters: Poppy Sebag-Montefiore and Phoebe Davis  Episode photography: Joe Mee Executive Producer: Matt Russell 

    7 min • S1, E1237

  • Ada Barumé
    Trump wants to sue the BBC

    Trump's lawyers demanded that the BBC apologise for an edited clip of him in a Panorama documentary or face a $1 billion lawsuit.   Writer: Poppy Bullard   Producer: Poppy Bullard   Host: Ada Barume     Episode photography: Sofia Fenton   Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore  

    9 min • S1, E1233

  • Ada Barumé
    Andrew Tate is finished

    Young people are moving on from online influencer Andrew Tate. Host: Ada Barumé Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Joe Mee Executive producer: Matt Russell

    6 min • S1, E1232

  • Ada Barumé
    What the renters rights act means for tenants

    The renters rights act is the most momentous change to housing law since the 1980's, but what will it mean for the UK's 11 million renters?  Writer: Ada Barumé Producer: Ada Barumé Host: Casey Magloire

    8 min • S1, E1229

  • Ada Barumé
    Climate change made Hurricane Melissa worse

    The exceptional Category 5 hurricane that struck Jamaica was made four times more likely by human-induced climate change.   Host: Ada Barume Writer: Jeevan Vasagar  Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Sophia Fenton Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

    7 min • S1, E1223

  • Ada Barumé
    The Israeli settlers waiting to move in to Gaza

    US President Donald Trump's peace plan says Gaza will be for the Gazans, but a few miles from the strip's border, a small number of Israeli settlers are waiting to move in.   

    8 min • S1, E1222

  • Ada Barumé
    How we eat may be making us ill

    Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up more than half of all the food we eat in the UK and there are increasing fears about the implications for our health.    Host: Ada Barumé Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland Episode Photography: Sofia Fenton Executive producer: Katie Gunning

    9 min • S1, E1221

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