"[1] It is hosted by American journalist Peter Lavelle, who created the show.

[4] Guests are encouraged to intervene whenever they wish which, according to Oliver Bullough in the New Statesman, means the conversation can "degrade into barely comprehensible shouting".

[5] In a 2010 episode of CrossTalk, Lavelle's two guests — Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion and Anne-Elisabeth Moutet of the Rousseau Institute — were taken aback when he said that the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks were "not fundamentalists".

[6] An edition in July 2016 was a response to a NATO summit in which all participants were critical of the alliance.

One participant said NATO was "a minute group of megalomaniac powerbrokers hell bent on sending us into a third world war".