Fletch, Mackay and others in “Unfinished Business”

'Ol love-lorn Lenny here wants to know whether the BBC ever play prisoner requests.

No. Oh no. The answer to that is no. On the grounds that it could cause embarrassment."

Godber

Embarrassment?

To the prisoner's families. The families might've excused his absence by telling the neighbours that the felon in question was abroad, or working on a North Sea oil rig.

Godber

Oh. I see.

No doubt your wife, Fletcher, has told your friends that you are on a five-year safari. [chuckles at his own joke]

No. She just tells them I'm doing missionary work in Scotland.