Nevertheless, it had been published on trust by the corporation, which believes that programme editors do not need their accounts to be checked with colleagues.
It may be the nerdiest wine book ever published (and, trust me, that's a competitive title) but it's also a work of astounding scholarship, and as a piece of book-making, is an outright masterpiece.
I know that it is said that the way to make a million in publishing is to start with £10m, but somebody out there is making some money out of publishing, trust me.
I'll put my publishing trust in the Obvious team, because they know how it's done.
Under the plans to be published today trusts will be contractually-bound to run a full service seven days a week - with breaches costing them as much as 2.5 per cent of their annual income of up to £500 million.
The easier it is to publish, the more rubbish will get published, and trusted newspaper brands may become more valuable.The price of newspapers, however, is likely to rise, once the classified advertising that used to subsidise the copy has gone.
But new research published by the Trust for London shows it is deservedly so.
The audited accounts must also be published on the trust's website.
The CQC's highly critical report into the trust, published in April, noted "an unacceptable level of thematic serious incidents and never events at Broomfield".
Open data around who owns a company, the beneficial ownership relationships between a company and its subsidiaries – when this is published, it increases trust.
