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Ministers will meet civil service unions today to talk about how to cut the cost of making thousands of public sector staff redundant. Police are still hunting a former nightclub bouncer, who's on the run after a triple-shooting. And how children feel about their parents' drinking?

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0615
Business news with Adam Shaw: The pay packages received by the directors of UK's top companies are increasingly out of step with their performance, according to pay consultants MM&K and corporate governance group Manifest. And will there be strikes at BT? Frances O'Grady, the Deputy General Secretary of the TUC, outlines their concerns.

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The British Film Institute is asking the public to help it find 75 lost British films. A similar appeal back in 1992 located 16 films that had not made it into any archive. Robin Baker is head curator at the BFI's national archive, explains how people can help it find the movies. 0651
More people are turning up at hospital accident and emergency units than ever before. Many of them do not need to be there and it is costing the NHS a fortune. That is what the Nuffield Trust has concluded. Its director, Dr Jennifer Dixon, and John Heyworth of the College of Emergency Medicine, discuss why more people are going to A&E. 0709
Canon Chris Sugden and Canon Giles Fraser debate if the appointment of Dr Jeffrey John as Bishop of Southwark would reopen the wounds surrounding the debate over gay bishops in the Anglican Church.

0715
US General David Petraeus has formally taken charge of the international force fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. Defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports from Kandahar city, where she has been out on patrol with UK forces. 0720
Business news with Adam Shaw.

0722
Northumbria Police have appealed to the man suspected of shooting three people on Tyneside to contact them. Reporter Anna Foster describes how police using all their resources and tactics to track Raoul Moat and are urging the public not to approach him. 0725
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0735
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to have talks in Washington with President Barack Obama. Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk discusses whether this meeting is going to be friendlier than the last one between the two men. 0740
The paper review.

0742
The World Cup has demonstrated a remarkable array of "competitive gobbing" for which a golden cup, to rival the golden boot, should be introduced, according to Today's World Cup analyst Lynne Truss. In her latest report on the competition, the writer considers soccer, saliva and sorry football stars. 0744
Manuela Saenz who was married to an Englishman, ran away to Venezuela and became the mistress of the most famous South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, was once described at "the most famous harlot in the US". Victor Bulmer-Thomas of the University of London has made a study of this extraordinary woman 150 years after her death. 0746
Thought for the day with Canon Lucy Winkett, of St Paul's Cathedral

0750
Civil service unions are meeting the government today to talk about what payout civil servants should get if they're made redundant. Former senior Treasury civil servant Steve Robson and Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCSU, outline their views on the possible scale of cuts. 0810
The BBC has uncovered new evidence of the damage done to children by the drinking habits of their parents. Nicolay Sorensen of Alcohol Concern and Tim Martin of Wetherspoon's debate alcohol in the family home.

0820
It is more than 40 years since two black US athletes stood on the podium at the Mexico Olympics and raised their fists in a salute to "Black Power". Nicola Stanbridge meets the musician and songwriter Rickie Lee Jones and discusses her fascination with the moment when the two men, aided by an Australian competitor, caught the world's attention.

0827
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0830
The BBC publishes its annual report and accounts today and with it a decision on whether 6 Music will be axed. Steve Hewlett, presenter of Radio 4's Media Show, looks beyond the headlines to analyse the apparent divide between the BBC Trust and senior management over the disclosure of salaries. 0834
Business news with Adam Shaw.

0837
For the past few weeks internet users in Turkey have been unable to access to some of the most widely-used websites run by Google. Correspondent Jonathan Head reports on how the websites were accidentally blocked by the Turkish authorities in their efforts to enforce an existing ban on the website YouTube, which happens to be owned by Google.

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Interest rates in this country are at an all-time low. And they must stay low, according to the outgoing leader of the CBI. Not everyone agrees. Dr Peter Warburton, a member of a group of economists calling themselves the "shadow" monetary policy committee and Charles Dumas, chief economist for Lombard Street Research, debate the true price of money.

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Pakistan's cricket team will play their first 'home' match against Australia tonight at Edgbaston. Former Pakistan player Rameez Raja discusses how the series has been moved to England due to security concerns in the country. 0851
The prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Washington today for talks with President Obama. Chief diplomatic reporter of the Jerusalem Post Gil Hoffman examines the sort of welcome Mr Netanyahu can expect.

0854
Scrums and high tackles should be banned from rugby played in schools, so says the public health professor Allyson Pollock. Former England international Brian Moore and former Scotland player Alan Tait, debate if the sport is too dangerous for young people.

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