Best remembered today as the notorious producer of over a hundred cheaply made exploitation movies, Harry Alan Towers began his long career in radio, a medium in which he created dozens of high quality classic shows including, most famously, ‘The Lives of Harry Lime’, starring Orson Welles.

From his first successful attempts to get his programmes on air in the late 1930s, via some unwanted attention from American law-enforcement authorities, through to his star-studded productions of the ‘50s, ‘The Lives of Harry Towers’ is the story of that pioneering and globe-trotter’s radio career.

In the first of three profiles, the featured full-length programmes are:

* ‘Theatre Royal: The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol’ starring Sir Michael Redgrave.

* ‘Secrets of Scotland Yard: The Acid Bath Murder’

Presenter: Adam Roche
Producer: Dominic Delargy

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and fist broadcast in January 2019. Show less