Career
He read biochemistry at the University of Bath before switching to English at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was an exhibitioner. In the ‘eighties he worked as an advertising executive, successively at The Creative Business, Butler Dennis Garland, Yellowhammer, TBWA and WCRS. He published the Financial Times textbook on the industry,, in 1993. (2000) celebrated the contribution made by the English to Alpine mountaineering, tourism and winter sports.
Riviera (2004), examined the creation by English ex-patriots of the French Riviera.
Storming the Eagle’s Nest (2013), was a sequel to: the story of the Alps in the Second World War. We Come Unseen was the subject of a television documentary, Submarine (Channel 5, 2001), to which Ring acted as script consultant.
In 2005 he co-founded a film production company, specialising in documentaries. Incomers ( Independent Television, 2009), dramatised the challenges faced by immigrants in the United Kingdom. Subsequently he made a series of films about nuclear energy, the most recent (2014) on the 2011 accident at Fukushima Daiichi.
Ring is the collateral descendant of the Restoration antiquarian Elias Ashmole, and grandson of the archaeologist Bernard Ashmole.
