From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. It's always good to have old friends, even other old friends who haven't done the show.

And this particular old friend is, I think, has a particular target in the way he works.

He is a guy who seems to be drawn to intergenerational conflict in storytelling, be it in Swingtown

or Six Feet Under or the Newsroom or his newest project.

The new edition of Tales of the City for Netflix, is very much a part of that.

My guest is the show's executive producer and director, Alan Poole.

So good to have you here.

Thank you.

I've been wanting to be here for a long time.

Well, you have a low series of expectations to be met, so I'm glad to have you.

But talk to me about this, because this idea of intergenerational and basically tribes claiming language is something you're really drawn to, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

And it's, you know, I've had a significant amount of life experience at this point.

And so trying to, and one of the ways of trying to stay part of the conversation is to own the generation that I'm in and

look for dialogue with younger generations because it's across the board, it's a dialogue that's

not happening nearly enough. And so I don't want to be, you know, put out to pastor. So, not

yet. So this is a good way to keep things lively. And in addition, I've just always been a very

language-oriented person. I got my college to keep things lively. And in addition, I've just always been a very language-oriented person.

I got my college degree in Japanese literature, and I speak fluent Japanese, and I got into

film because of Japanese.

And so, and Japanese being such an unusual language are so different from the romance

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