[6][7] He did his national service working as a physical training instructor in the Royal Air Force in Berlin for two and a half years.
[12] In September 1960, he, the BBC's Richard Williams and the Daily Express's George Gale were arrested in Bakwanga in the breakaway province of Kasai whilst reporting on the Congo Crisis as a Belgian spy and for not having official Congolese documentation.
[18] In January 1976, he and a camera operator were briefly detained by the police in Madrid after filming outside a strike-affected Chrysler car factory.
[19] Gall narrated the ITV documentary Journey's End on the Vietnamese boat people who had settled at the Thorney Island camp near Portsmouth in 1980.
[20] He reported on the 1980 United States presidential election from the American Embassy in London,[21] and the Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer from Knightsbridge Barracks in July 1981.
[30] In the year after, Gall narrated an ITN programme on Sarah, Duchess of York entitled A Royal Romance,[31] and spent three months filming the documentary Afghanistan; Agony of a Nation that was broadcast in November 1986 because he believed the Soviet-Afghan war was not being reported on correctly.
[34] Gall made his final appearance as a newsreader on News at Ten on 4 January 1991;[35] he returned to a special reporting role in the same month, covering Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan.
[1] In 1995, Gall wrote and presented the ITV documentary Network First: The Man Who Saved the Animals that profiled the conservationist Richard Leakey.
[39][40] In late 2002, Gall was signed by Channel 5 to present a week of special four-minute reports from Afghanistan on attempts to restore the Buddhas of Bamiyan that were destroyed by the Taliban.
[50] In June 1972, Gall was injured in a car accident in Bromley, Kent and suffered facial cuts because he fell asleep while driving.