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Books Storming the Eagle's Nest: Hitl, How the English made the, We Come Unseen, Riviera: The Rise and Rise, Erskine Childers | ||
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Jim Ring (born 1954) is an English writer, working in print and on screen.
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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, Advertising on Trial, in 1993.
Erskine Childers (1996) a biography of the author of The Riddle of the Sands, was the winner of the Marsh Biography Award in 1997. How the English Made the Alps (2000) celebrated the contribution made by the English to Alpine mountaineering, tourism and winter sports. We Come Unseen: the Untold Story of Britain’s Cold War Submariners (2001), was the winner of the Mountbatten Prize. Riviera (2004), examined the creation by English ex-patriots of the French Riviera. Storming the Eagle’s Nest (2013), was a sequel to How the English Made the Alps: the story of the Alps in the Second World War.
We Come Unseen was the subject of a TV 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 (ITV, 2009), dramatised the challenges faced by immigrants in the UK. 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.