in 1946 harry towers and his mother, margaret miller towers, started a company called towers of london that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world, including "the lives of harry lime" with orson welles, "the secrets of scotland yard" with clive brook, "horatio hornblower" with michael redgrave, and a series of sherlock holmes stories featuring john gielgud as holmes, ralph richardson as watson and welles as moriarty.