[1] His house in Hampstead was a regular haunt of left-leaning intellectuals in the 1970s and 1980s; Michael Foot chose to film his first televised interview as Leader of the Labour Party (UK) from its kitchen.
[2] Having started his career at the BBC, in 1972 he was poached by Granada Television to act as a producer on the investigative current affairs programme World In Action.
In 1973, whilst reporting the Yom Kippur War, he was part of a convoy of ITV journalists that was narrowly missed by a Syrian wire-guided missile.
David Elstein recorded in his memoir that the vehicles were only missed because a few moments prior to the missile strike Segal had insisted that the convoy be halted so that he could "relieve himself in the shade, under a tree".
[7] Later in the same conflict, Segal was shot in the leg when his team came under machine gun fire from the Israel Defense Forces following a misidentification of the vehicle in which he was travelling in the Golan Heights.