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5 Live News Specials
BBC Radio 5 Live
Stephen Nolan with Mark Serwotka
18 minutes Posted Dec 1, 2014 at 2:02 pm.
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Stephen Nolan speaks to Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the UK's largest civil service union - the Public and Commercial Services Union.

He leads around a quarter of a million civil servants and central government workers.
Since spring 2010 Mark has experienced serious heart problems. He's now being kept alive by a machine which pumps blood around his body powered on batteries that he carries around in a bumbag.