"the adventures of harry lime" is one of the most successful series created by prolific british radio producer harry alan towers and his company towers of london. towers and graham greene, author of "the third man", had the same literary agent, and towers learned that greene had not sold the rights to the character of harry lime to alexander korda when he sold korda "the third man". towers quickly bought the rights to the character and in 1951 he put a syndicated radio series into production. orson welles reprised the role of harry lime in a series of adventures that preceded the story told in "the third man".